The rise in climate change-induced federal fishery disasters in the United States

Lyall Bellquist; Vienna Saccomanno; Brice X. Semmens; Mary Gleason; Jono Wilson

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The rise in climate change-induced federal fishery disasters in the United States

Lyall Bellquist Vienna Saccomanno Brice X. Semmens Mary Gleason Jono Wilson

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Abstract

Commercial, recreational, and indigenous fisheries are critical to coastal economies and communities in the United States. For over three decades, the federal government has formally recognized the impact of fishery disasters via federal declarations. Despite these impacts, national syntheses of the dynamics, impacts, and causes of fishery disasters are lacking. We developed a nationwide Federal Fishery Disaster database using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fishery disaster declarations and fishery revenue data. From 1989-2020, there were 71 federally approved fishery disasters (eleven are pending), which spanned every federal fisheries management region and coastal state in the country. To date, we estimate fishery disasters resulted in $2B (2019 USD) in Congressional allocations, and an additional, conservative estimate of $3.2B (2019 USD) in direct revenue loss. Despite this scale of impact, the disaster assistance process is largely ad hoc and lacks sufficient detail to properly assess allocation fairness and benefit. Nonetheless, fishery disasters increased in frequency over time, and the causes of disasters included a broad range of anthropogenic and environmental factors, with a recent shift to disasters now almost exclusively caused by extreme environmental events (e.g., marine heatwaves, hurricanes, and harmful algal blooms). Nationwide, 84.5% of fishery disasters were either partially or entirely attributed to extreme environmental events. As climate change drives higher rates of such extreme events, and as natural disaster assistance requests reach an all-time high, the federal system for fisheries disaster declaration and mitigation must evolve in order to effectively protect both fisheries sustainability and societal benefit.

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Published: Apr 22, 2021
Vol/Issue: 9
Pages: e11186
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Authors

L

Lyall Bellquist

California Oceans Program, The Nature Conservancy, San Diego, CA, United States of America; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

V

Vienna Saccomanno

California Oceans Program, The Nature Conservancy, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

B

Brice X. Semmens

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

M

Mary Gleason

California Oceans Program, The Nature Conservancy, Monterey, CA, United States of America

J

Jono Wilson

California Oceans Program, The Nature Conservancy, Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America; Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America

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Lyall Bellquist, Vienna Saccomanno, Brice X. Semmens, et al. (2021). The rise in climate change-induced federal fishery disasters in the United States. PeerJ, 9, e11186. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11186

The rise in climate change-induced federal fishery disasters in the United States

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