SEAwise Report on the key drivers of stock productivity and future environmental scenarios
Creators: name: Savina-Rolland, Marie
name: Rindorf, Anna
name: Brown, Elliot John
name: Neuenfeldt, Stefan
name: van Deurs, Mikael
name: Carbonara, Perluigi
name: Teresa Spedicato, Maria
name: Pierrucci, Andrea
name: Chust, Guillem
name: Garcia, Dorleta
name: Ibaibarriaga, Leire
name: González Taboada, Fernando
name: Depestele, Jochen
name: Sys, Klaas
name: Vansteenbrugge, Lies
name: Einberg, Heli
name: Ojaveer, Henn
name: Fincham, Jenni
name: Girardin, Raphael
name: Halouani, Ghassen
name: Lebigre, Christophe
name: Munschy, Catherine
name: Petitgas, Pierre
name: Woillez, Mathieu
name: Zambonino, Jose-Luise
name: Melià, Paco
name: O’Connor, Bríd
name: Reid, David
name: Uhlmann, Sebastian
name: Papantoniou, Georgia
name: Politikos, Dimitrios
name: Tsagarakis, Konstantinos
name: Valavanis, Vasilis
name: Vassilopoulou, Celia
name: Kempf, Alexander
name: Taylor, Marc
name: Ustups, Didzis
name: Rüdiger Voss
Publisher: name: Technical University of Denmark
Year: 2022
Subjects: Environmental assessment and monitoring
Environmental management
Natural resource management
Wildlife and habitat management
Conservation and biodiversity

description: An ecosystem approach to fisheries management requires the consideration of commercial species as components of an ecosystem and the acknowledgement of the links between their productivity and the surrounding environment. To provide a knowledge base for such links, SEAwise consulted stakeholders throughout Europe and conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature. The systematic review resulted in 2050 articles from the literature search that were screened for their tile and abstract. 516 of them were retained for data extraction. The majority of studies were conducted in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, followed by the Western Waters, and with only a few dozen papers in the Mediterranean Sea. Cod and herring were the most studied species, temperature and more generally climate and hydrodynamics indicators were the main drivers investigated, and reproduction was the main productivity-related process. The output of the systematic review is a database of scientific articles organised by regions, species, environmental drivers and productivity-associated processes and where outcomes, but also spatial and time scales, analytical methods etc. are described in a standardised fashion. This database will be analysed in the coming months and used in the downstream tasks of WP3. The most frequently driver identified by stakeholders across regions was climate change followed by species interactions, cod, pollution, commercial fish/shellfish and plankton. Climate change effects on stocks through temperature and salinity are relatively well covered in the literature as are effects of plankton and species interaction. Studies of the effects of pollution do not occur frequently and as a consequence require a dedicated effort is made in SEAwise to remedy this. Species reported frequently by the stakeholders included cod, seabass, sardine, sole, crabs, flatfish, Norway lobster, octopus, shrimps, herring, sprat, anchovy, hake, new species (species increasing in abundance as a result of climate change as well as invasive species of commercial interest) and sandeel. Among these, more than 10 papers were retrieved for cod, sardine, sole, herring, sprat, selected flatfish, anchovy, hake and sandeel. For the remaining species, a dedicated effort must be made in SEAwise if they are to be included in stock models. <br> This report describes results of the SEAwise project. More information about the project can be found at https://seawiseproject.org/