Several of our California Current IEA scientists recently published an article that provides insight into the future of West Coast groundfish fisheries as a response to climate change in the journal Science Advances. The locations of many valuable species, like sablefish, will change as a result of warming water temperatures and decreasing oxygen levels.
“Climate change will alter where species can be caught efficiently, in ways that may challenge fishing communities that have grown accustomed to using particular fishing grounds,” said Jameal Samhouri, a research scientist at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center and coauthor of the research. “This is a look at how that might play out.”