Climate Change and Small Pelagic Fish [Paperback]

The first book to extensively address climate change effects on small pelagic fish such as anchovy, sardine, sprat, and herring.This book discusses how climate variability affects small pelagic fish, their ecosystems and fisheries. It describes the causes of their fluctuating stock, highlights similar fluctuations over the past two millennia, and assesses the ecological and economic consequences. It also considers the effects of future climate change on stocks and fisheries.This book discusses how climate variability affects small pelagic fish, their ecosystems and fisheries. It describes the causes of their fluctuating stock, highlights similar fluctuations over the past two millennia, and assesses the ecological and economic consequences. It also considers the effects of future climate change on stocks and fisheries.This book details the effects of climate variability on small pelagic fish and their ecosystems and fisheries. Particularly abundant in coastal upwelling regions off the west coasts of the Americas and Africa, off Japan, and in the NE Atlantic, the stocks of these fish fluctuate greatly over the timescale of decades, with large ecological and economic effects. This book describes the nature and cause of these fluctuations, and their consequences. It outlines results from paleo-oceanographic studies, showing that similar fluctuations have also occurred over the past two millennia. The potential effects of future climate change, both natural and anthropogenic, on stocks and fisheries, are considered. The book concludes by recommending the continued international study and assessment of small pelagic fish in order to best inform management and policy under a changing climate. It is written for research scientists, academics, and policy makers in fisheries, oceanography, and climate change.Foreword; Preface; 1. History of international co-operation in research J?rgen Alheit and Andrew Bakun; 2. A short scientific history of the fisheries Alec D. MacCall; 3l³c