OOS2025-679, updated on 26 Mar 2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/oos2025-679
One Ocean Science Congress 2025
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Advancing the Climate-Biodiversity-Fisheries Nexus in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
Steven J. Bograd1, Laura C. Anderson2, Gabrielle Canonico3, Sanae Chiba4, Emanuele Di Lorenzo5, Claire Enterline6, Edward Gorecki7, Roger Griffis7, Kristin M. Kleisner8, Hannah Lachance9, Margaret Leinen10, Katherine E. Mills6, Frank Müller-Karger11, Grace Roskar7, Jörn Schmidt12, Rachel Seary13, Sophie Seeyave14, Tan Shau Hwai15, Joana Soares16, and Michelle Tigchelaar12
Steven J. Bograd et al.
  • 1NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Monterey, CA, USA
  • 2Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • 3NOAA IOOS Marine Life Program, Silver Spring, MD, USA
  • 4North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), Sidney, BC, CANADA
  • 5Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
  • 6Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME, USA
  • 7NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD, USA
  • 8Environmental Defense Fund, Boston, MA, USA
  • 9Leading Solutions in support of NOAA Fisheries, Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD, USA
  • 10Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
  • 11College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
  • 12WorldFish, Penang, MALAYSIA
  • 13Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
  • 14Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK
  • 15Centre For Marine & Coastal Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, MALAYSIA
  • 16AIR Centre, Angra do Heroísmo, PORTUGAL

Climate-driven changes in marine ecosystem structure and function adversely impact the biodiversity and sustainability of living marine resources, food security, and the resilience of coastal communities. Understanding how climate change impacts marine ecosystem biodiversity and global fisheries, i.e. the ‘climate-biodiversity-fisheries nexus’, is a fundamental element of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Several Ocean Decade-endorsed Programmes within the climate-biodiversity-fisheries nexus are building global networks to transform our capacity to understand, forecast, manage, and adapt to climate-driven changes in ocean ecosystems, including sustaining blue food resources that provide essential food security and nutrition in a rapidly changing world. Here we compare the scope, objectives, global partnerships, and capacities of these and other Programmes to facilitate effective collaboration and identify critical gaps in developing solutions to climate-driven changes in marine food webs, species assemblages and global fisheries. We will provide recommendations for new and existing Ocean Decade Actions around the climate-biodiversity-fisheries nexus to ensure the Ocean Decade can achieve the desired outcomes of a ‘productive, predicted, healthy and resilient ocean’ by 2030.

How to cite: Bograd, S. J., Anderson, L. C., Canonico, G., Chiba, S., Di Lorenzo, E., Enterline, C., Gorecki, E., Griffis, R., Kleisner, K. M., Lachance, H., Leinen, M., Mills, K. E., Müller-Karger, F., Roskar, G., Schmidt, J., Seary, R., Seeyave, S., Shau Hwai, T., Soares, J., and Tigchelaar, M.: Advancing the Climate-Biodiversity-Fisheries Nexus in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, One Ocean Science Congress 2025, Nice, France, 3–6 Jun 2025, OOS2025-679, https://doi.org/10.5194/oos2025-679, 2025.