Climate change is causing fish stocks to shift and is altering their productivity and availability. This is already creating issues with access to stocks and the allocation of harvest opportunity to fishers. The changing access to fishery resources creates problems at the social and economic level, such as issues of fairness among fishermen. These problems feed back into management systems which are often already strained, and can adversely impact fishery participants, processors and related communities.
Morning Consult conducted a survey, on behalf of the Walton Family Foundation, with additional analysis from Beck Research, that illustrated most Americans agree that protecting agriculture, food, soil health, and water quality now and in the future is essential
Environment Program director Moira Mcdonald shares her thoughts on the connection between water and climate change - and what gives her hope about the future.
