Climate change threatens our ability to ensure global food security, eradicate poverty, and achieve sustainable development . Aquaculture is well positioned to help meet the world’s future seafood needs, but heavy reliance of most global aquaculture on the ambient environment and ecosystem services suggests inherent vulnerability to climate change effects. While m itigation of climate change is essential , it remains elusive.
A daptation then becomes the only pragmatic option . Reconciling climate change and aquaculture to support adaptation is a huge challenge as decision making typically
needs to consider
large amounts of information encompassing multi ple disciplines.
This results in increasing demands for addressing knowledge gaps and accountability for aquaculture research. A climate change vulnerability assessment is one method that triages threats to prioritize adaptation efforts and t his approach has recently begun to see application in aquaculture.
This presentation explores potential roles for climate change vulnerability assessments and
how they could
compliment the evolving needs of climate change and aquaculture research, which is crucial to support planned adaptation.