At October's Salish Sea Science Roundtable, Heather Welch (researcher at NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center and UC Santa Cruz) shared new research and discussed how modeling can potentially allow fisheries management and regulations to proactively and dynamically adapt to climate impacts. In the new paper, researchers predicted the change in habitat and by extension jurisdiction for 14 species of ecological, cultural, and commercial importance during recent heatwaves. Marine species have and will continue to move in response to climate change, irrespective of jurisdictional borders. This sort of real-time modeling can help fishers find valuable species while also avoiding endangered species like sea turtles.

Check out out NOAA's overview: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/featur...

Go deep by reading the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...

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