Abstract

As the global human population grows, it remains a top priority for communities, managers, policymakers, and stakeholders to maintain healthy, sustainable, and productive fisheries under continued global change. Here we used a dataset consisting of fish and lake characteristics for 536 lakes across Ontario, Canada, to test whether multiple climate, human, and biological factors differentially affect fish production (i.e., population biomass per hectare per year). We tested the hypothesis that temperature is the key driver of fisheries production by testing for the effects of multiple factors on the production of three top predatory fish species: cold-water lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), cool-water walleye (Sander vitreus), and warm-water smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu). Using boosted regression tree analyses, we found that lake trout production was most influenced by the volume of hypolimnetic habitat, walleye production was related to other climatic variables, and smallmouth bass production was most influenced by sampling day of the year followed by Secchi depth. Our results suggest that current fish production models — that only include temperature and body size — may oversimplify important ecological complexities and thus misinform management decisions because species respond differently to environmental drivers.

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  • Important gains have been made in implementing the Programme of Action The world has witnessed significant progress in implementing the ICPD Programme of Action, 1

  • Other regions will see varying rates of increase between 2019 and 2050: Oceania excluding Australia/New Zealand (56%), Northern Africa and Western Asia (46%), Australia/New Zealand

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