This paper is to investigate how climate change affect fisheries resources and economic performance of fishing sector and coastal communities in the Arctic with a focus on Svalbard Fisheries Protection Zone. Climate change is projected to alter the productivity of our oceans, the distribution, abundance, composition, quality and quantity of marine...
We combine information from several global fisheries databases including
those from the Sea Around Us Project (www.seaaroundus.org) and the
Fisheries Economics Research Unit (http://feru.org) to project the future
potential gains in human welfare under the assumption that (i) global
fisheries continue the current declining trend observed over the last several...