Volume 68
Potential Climate Change Effects on Coastal Small-scale Fisheries and on the Exploited Biodiversity in French Guiana
Authors
Blanchard, F., A. Cissé, O. Prado-Merini, and L. Doyen Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2015
Pages: 299 - 300
Event: Proceedings of the Sixty eigth Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Panama City
Country: Panama
Abstract
At the global scale, considering biodiversity loss and erosion because of overexploitation, habitat alteration, climate change, pollution, and invasive species, there is an urgent need to develop an ecosystem based fisheries management. In French Guiana, the long term increase of the demand for sea food due to the population growth, the population will be multiplied by two in 20 years, and the impacts of climate change yet observed for marine biodiversity, question the ecosystem capacity to insure food security and economic viability of the coastal small-scale fisheries without alteration for the next generations. To bring some answers to this question, a bio-economic model has been developed.