Climate-Adaptive Management
Find tools to adaptively manage your fishery
Fisheries are highly dynamic systems influenced by fluctuating environmental conditions, variable productivity of marine species, human fishing pressure, and changing market and socioeconomic conditions. As a result, fisheries management must be designed to be adaptive to changing conditions and community needs, especially in the face of climate change.
You can learn more about climate-adaptive management through our additional learning resources.
EDF has a suite of tools to guide you in managing your fishery adaptively to allow you to build greater resilience in communities and ecosystems.
Related Tools
Expand AllThe Framework for Integrated Stock and Habitat Evaluation (FISHE) Tool provides a step-by-step process that you can plug into, no matter where you are are in assessment or management, to integrate your existing efforts into a climate-adaptive process that can integrate new information and allow you to adjust your management strategies over time.
The Fishery Performance Indicators Tool can help you define a set of indicators to help you track and measure performance in your fishery, in alignment with your fishery goals.
New and Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Fisheries: A Comprehensive Landscape Analysis reviews how technology can help overcome key management challenges resulting from climate change.
Explore our framework for adaptive management of data-limited fisheries