Carbon sink fishery: a climate change perspective in CCAMLR ecosystem based fishery management

Climate change is an important issue for CCAMLR to conserve the marine living resources. Recent researches have shown that well-managed fishery can play an important role in promoting the carbon sink function of the ecosystem thereby alleviate the warming trend by absorbing more greenhouse gas CO₂ in the atmosphere. This paper illustrated the carbon sink function of the capture fishery and assessed the fishery carbon sink using the Antarctic krill fishery as an example. It showed that, with fishery carbon sink perspective, it is possible for CCAMLR to incorporate climate change consideration into its ecosystem-based approach in developing fishery management measures.