Assessing the risk of climate change to aquaculture: a case study from south-east Australia

Aquaculture Environment Interactions

关键词: Risk assessment;    Climate change;    Aquaculture;    Australia;   

DOI  :  10.3354/aei00058

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Inter-Research

【 摘 要 】

ABSTRACT: A qualitative screening-level risk assessment was developed to evaluate relative levels of risk from climate change to aquaculture industries. The assessment was applied to 7 major industries in the temperate south-east region of Australia and involved a simple, transparent and repeatable methodology that was appropriate for a range of different aquaculture systems and taxa. Two key stages were involved: the development of comprehensive expertise-based literature reviews or ‘species profiles’ and a scoring assessment, with the latter providing a defined framework within which industries could be ranked (from high to low risk). In addition to informing the second stage of the risk assessment process, the species’ profiles also highlighted important climate change drivers and key information uncertainties and knowledge gaps. There was good resolution among the scoring assessments, with only 2 industries receiving the same risk score. The results indicated that oysters farmed from wild spat (Sydney rock oysters

【 授权许可】

CC BY