Resilience and Social Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts in Small-Scale Fisheries

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dc.contributor.authorVillasante, Sebastianen
dc.contributor.authorMacho, Gonzaloen
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Monalisa R. O.en
dc.contributor.authorLopes, Priscila F. M.en
dc.contributor.authorPita, Pabloen
dc.contributor.authorSimon, Andresen
dc.contributor.authorBalsa, Jose Carlos Marinoen
dc.contributor.authorOlabarria, Celiaen
dc.contributor.authorVazquez, Elsaen
dc.contributor.authorCalvo, Nuriaen
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-15T14:08:33Zen
dc.date.available2022-06-15T14:08:33Zen
dc.date.issued2022-05-04en
dc.description.abstractSmall-cale fisheries are important for livelihoods, food security, jobs and income worldwide. However, they face major challenges, including the increasing effects of climate change that pose serious risks to coastal ecosystems and fishing communities. Although scientific research on climate change impacts has increased in recent years, few studies have explored the social impacts on small-scale fisheries. Using Galicia (Spain) as a case study, we investigated individual and household-level adaptive responses to climate change among fishers in three fishing guilds (Cambados, Campelo, and Redondela). Specifically, we estimated the economic vulnerability of shellfishers and assessed the diversity of social adaptive responses used to deal with climate change. Although fishers' income strongly depends on shellfishing in all studied areas, our findings show that less fishing experience and lower engagement in fisher associations tend to increase the economic vulnerability of the fishers. The fishers' vulnerability decreases as the size of households increases, while fishers who pay a mortgage and who live in households with fewer active members tend to be more vulnerable. The findings also show that Galician shellfishers have developed a wide range of adaptation strategies to anticipate and respond to climate change impacts, namely harvesting pricier and more abundant species, reducing household expenses and increasing social involvement in shellfishery associations. Although the adaptive strategies have helped Galician fishers to deal with climate change impacts, several threats to the sustainability of shellfisheries remain, such as a decrease in the abundance of key native shellfish species, and a high dependence on public and private aid to ensure reasonable incomes for shellfisheries. These findings are of interest and relevance to other similar small-scale fisheries around the world facing similar climate change challenges.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.802762en
dc.identifier.eissn2296-7745en
dc.identifier.other802762en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/110786en
dc.identifier.volume9en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFrontiersen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectartisanal fisheriesen
dc.subjectclimate changeen
dc.subjectvulnerabilityen
dc.subjectsocial adaptationen
dc.subjectGaliciaen
dc.subjectSpainen
dc.titleResilience and Social Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts in Small-Scale Fisheriesen
dc.title.serialFrontiers in Marine Scienceen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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