An Introduction to the Climate Adaptation Science Centers Fish Research Program: highlighting large-scale, data-driven approaches to understand climate impacts on inland fisheries

The U.S. Geological Survey Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASC) Fish Research Program is a dynamic group working collaboratively to explore the impacts of climate and other stressors on fish and aquatic systems to inform conservation and climate adaptation. We work collaboratively with diverse partners to ensure research can be directly used by resource managers and conservation practitioners to inform fisheries management. We include partners in every stage of the scientific process, specifically designing their projects to address pressing management challenges and fill in knowledge gaps. We work with everyone from individual anglers and Indigenous communities up to large professional networks, purposefully collaborating with diverse voices to create new and innovative approaches. Here, we highlight three large-scale, data-driven initiatives led by the CASC fish team to demonstrate examples of ongoing, co-produced work conducted at global and national scales. All of this work seeks to inform the sustainable and equitable use of inland fisheries in a changing climate.

Primary Presenter: Holly Embke, U.S. Geological Survey (hembke@usgs.gov)

Authors:

Abigail Lynch, U.S. Geological Survey  (ajlynch@usgs.gov)