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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN seafood and climate change is complex. Many aspects of seafood’s production and management are vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change and, at the same time, seafood or blue foods are increasingly recognized as a critical element for more climatefriendly global food systems – food production is a key driver for climate change, with estimates as high as 30 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions. Protecting seafood resources; understanding impacts and designing appropriate responses; addressing outside drivers impacting seafood; and advocating for seafood as an important tool in the fight against climate change all require an integrated strategy and coordinated response to position seafood as the healthy, climate-friendly protein of the future.

As seafood companies try to understand the business implications of climate impacts on their supply chains and how to best respond, here is a quick introduction to four strategies essential to protecting the seafood industry and the planet:

1. Reduce the seafood industry’s contribution to climate change

2. Make the seafood industry and seafood resources more resilient to climate change

3. Promote seafood and blue foods’ contribution to more climate-friendly global food systems

4. Increase the seafood industry’s voice in global climate policy

Reducing the seafood industry’s contribution to climate change

Seafood is already one of the most climate-