Hannah Orloff - Article on Commercial Fishing and Climate Change

     In a newsletter published by Science Daily, author Rebecca Selden shared the results from her group's massive five year spanning research project which synthesized reports from fishing communities scattered across the northeastern seaboard in the United States. These reports included what fishing communities, whether large or small, are doing to their practices in order to accommodate changes caused by climate change. As oceans continue to warm and more sustainable methods of energy development like oceanic windmills are constructed, the behavior and range of the fish that are caught an used in the commercial fishing trade are going to change, which will affect the fishermen who collect them. Harvesting changes done by fishermen include changing the method of extraction, the location, or the species all together. These changes will also affect larger ports and smaller communities much differently, and although not significant now as the ocean's climate continues to alter it may leave catastrophic effects on smaller fishing communities if they do not have the resources to adapt. From an environmentalist standpoint, commercial fishing is an industry that has overexploited a resource that in some regions is unable to recover, and the damage done to the sea floor using dredging or trawling has been devastating. To see a reduction in commercial fishing practices, from the environmentalist standpoint, is not saddening in the least, but to the economy of these communities it could mean bankruptcy and devastation. When discussing the future of commercial fishing, I feel like the consideration of new methods to harvest fish should be examined that are more environmentally friendly but also sustainable in that fishing communities can continue to be financially supported by harvest income. It is a delicate dance and one that may not be entirely possible but getting closer to that solution would mean that both the environment and the fishing industry would be satisfied. The author did not discuss any of these exact methods, but she alluded to more research on this topic that is needed since climate change is affecting the oceans so quickly. I think that climate change is nature's way of telling us to wake up, and now is the time to develop technologies so that we as a species can coexist with the planet. 

Source: 

Selden, R. (2024, October 21). Creating a spatial map of the sea: New research visualizes how fishing communities can change fishing habits to adapt to climate change. Science Daily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/10/241021133254.htm 

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