World Aquaculture March 2019

WWW.WA S.ORG • WORLD AQUACULTURE • MARCH 2019 29 The author, near Juneau, Alaska (Photo: Anne Beaudreau). Notes Halley E. Froehlich, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis University of California, Santa Barbara froehlich@nceas.ucsb.edu More information can be obtained at the following websites: CART: www.cart-sci.org Openscapes: www.openscapes.org/ NCEAS: www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ My website: halleyfroehlich.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @DocFroehlich Suggested Reading Clavelle, T., S.E. Lester, R.R. Gentry and H.E. Froehlich. 2019. Interactions and management for the future of marine aquaculture and capture fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 10.1111/faf.12351 Froehlich, H.E., R.R. Gentry and B.S. Halpern. 2016. Synthesis and comparative analysis of physiological tolerance and life-history growth traits of marine aquaculture species. Aquaculture. 460:75-82. Froehlich, H.E., R.R. Gentry, B.S. Halpern. 2017. Conservation aquaculture: shifting the narrative and paradigm of aquaculture’s role in resource management. Biological Conservation 215:162-168. Froehlich, H.E., A. Smith, R.R. Gentry and B.S. Halpern. 2017. Offshore aquaculture: I know it when I see it. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10.3389/fmars.2017.00154 Froehlich H.E., R.R. Gentry and B.S. Halpern. 2018. Global change in marine aquaculture production potential under climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2:1745-1750. Froehlich, H.E., C.A. Runge, R.R. Gentry, S.D. Gaines, B.S. Halpern. 2018. Comparative terrestrial feed and land use of an aquaculture- dominant world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115:5295-5300. Froehlich, H.E., N. Sand Jacobsen, T.E. Essington, T. Clavelle and B.S. Halpern. 2018. Avoiding the ecological limits of forage fish for fed aquaculture. Nature Sustainability 1:298-303. Gentry, R.R., H.E. Froehlich, D. Grimm, P. Kareiva, M. Parke, M. Rust, S.D. Gaines and B. S. Halpern. 2017. Mapping the global potential for marine aquaculture. Nature Ecology and Evolution 1:1317-1324. Capturing Climate Change and the Future of Conservation Aquaculture There is a tremendous need to understand how climate change will affect aquaculture, and indeed, some of our more recent research has found evidence that major marine aquaculture hubs, such as nations in the Indo-Pacific, may be at greater risk. Potential impacts on marine finfish and bivalve production over the next century are from shifting temperatures, changes in primary production, and ocean acidification. Notably, the changes are predicted to happen sooner rather than later. This was the first spatially-explicit look into climate change impacts on aquaculture across different species groups. In the future, we are planning to expand the scope of the analysis with respect to environment type and species. Although the research is ongoing, my postdoctoral position is coming to a close in the next few months. In July, I will be starting my own laboratory with a renewed focus on aquaculture, fisheries, and climate change as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies and Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology departments of the University of California, Santa Barbara. There I plan to continue pursuing global-scale questions, synthesis science and modelling through the Conservation Aquaculture Research Team (CART) — the collaborative science initiative I helped start during my postdoctoral research. Future CART objectives will include new science, but also collaborations with farmers, policy makers, aquariums and scientists. Part of this involves better science communication and supporting open and transparent practices across stakeholder groups —which is so essential for my science and for the success of resource management and conservation. Finally, as the next generation of aquaculture researchers, producers and industry professionals cannot succeed without equal access to opportunities and a more inclusive culture for diversity, championing equity and representation within the field is a major aspect of CART’s core mission. Aquaculture is already part of our rapidly changing global system. In an era of big data and even bigger environmental challenges, collaborative and interdisciplinary science has a critical role to play in making aquaculture part of a brighter blue future. ( C O N T I N U E D O N P A G E 3 0 ) The author (right) assisting in the movement of a green sturgeon at the Center for Aquaculture & Aquatic Biology, UC Davis, 2007 (Photo: Dennis Cocherell).