climate change is likely to influence fisheries and aquaculture production in various ways for capture fisheries climate change affects fish productivity and distribution through changes in recruitment growth rates and mortality rates as well as in the migratory patterns of some stocks from an economic point of view these changes will result in losers and winners between regions or countries as well as within national jurisdictions with respect to aquaculture production climate change may necessitate changes in the species composition farmed in some areas depending on tolerability of the species to temperature and other changes