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Develop Climate-Resilient Aquaculture for Changing Ocean Conditions

Climate change is altering ocean temperature, chemistry, and weather patterns, threatening conventional aquaculture through increased storms, temperature extremes, ocean acidification, and ecosystem disruption. The challenge is developing aquaculture systems that can adapt to and thrive under changing climate conditions while maintaining productivity and sustainability. This requires innovations in system design, species selection, adaptive management, and climate monitoring. Current aquaculture systems are often vulnerable to climate impacts and lack adaptive capacity to respond to changing conditions. Technical barriers include predicting climate impacts on specific aquaculture operations, developing adaptive system designs, and selecting climate-resilient species and practices. Success would ensure aquaculture viability under climate change, protect food security from climate impacts, demonstrate climate adaptation strategies, create resilient food production systems, and provide climate adaptation approaches applicable to other agricultural sectors facing similar climate pressures and adaptation needs.

Applied Sciences, Specialized Agriculture, Aquaculture