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Responses of fisheries ecosystems to marine heatwaves and other extreme events

Marshak, Anthony R. and Link, Jason S. (2024) Responses of fisheries ecosystems to marine heatwaves and other extreme events.

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Abstract

Marine ecosystems and their living marine resources (LMRs) continue to respond to the effects of global change, with environmental factors impacting marine fisheries biomass, distribution, harvest, and associated economic performance. Extreme events such as high-category hurricanes, harmful algal blooms, marine heatwaves, and large-scale hypoxia affect major regions and subregions of United States waters, with their frequency expected to increase over the next decades. The impacts of extreme events on fisheries biomass, harvest, and economic performance have not been examined as closely as a system (i.e., cumulatively), or in terms of their differential effects on particular functional groups of a given system. Among several U.S. subregions, we examined responses of fisheries biomass, landings, and revenue for particular functional groups to large-scale environmental perturbations (i.e., marine heatwaves, Hurricane Katrina, Deepwater Horizon oil spill). Distinct negative short-term consequences to annual fisheries biomass, landings, and revenue were observed in all regions, including at the system-level scale for several ecosystems which have higher proportions of pelagic species composition and variable shellfish-based revenue. In addition, shifts in species composition often were associated with environmental perturbations. Recovery to pre-perturbation levels (both in the immediate years following the event and over the post-event period of study) and resilience at the system level was observed in several cases, although post-event declines in biomass and landings occurred in the California ecosystem. Certain extreme events are expected to become more common in marine environments, with resulting perturbations throughout multiple components of U.S. socioecological systems. The recognition and understanding of the consequences of extreme events throughout marine ecosystems is necessary for effective, holistic, and sustainable management practices.

Item Type: Articles
Keywords: Marine Ecosystems, Living Marine Resources (LMRs), Marine Fisheries, Biomass, Sustainable Management, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of Mexico
Subjects: Biodiversity
Depositing User: Kokila ICSF Krish
Date Deposited: 23 Jun 2025 10:15
Last Modified: 23 Jun 2025 10:15
URI: http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/21863

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