Climate risk assessment of the fisheries in Namibia

By Georg H. Engelhard, Chris Bova, M. Natanah C. Gusha, Olivia L. Harrod, Timoteus Kadhila, Alex Kanyimba, Usman Khan, Anja Kreiner, Sandy Nghipangelwa, Elsemi Olwage, John K. Pinnegar, Warren Potts, Nina Rivers, Elize Shakalela, Bernadette Snow, Sirkka Tshiningayamwe, Ursula Unengu, Angelika Veii, Tapiwa V. Warikandwa, Margit R. Wilhelm & Kieran Hyder

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“In Namibia, fisheries are important for food security and protein provisioning, income generation and trade; but they are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Not only does climate change impact the marine living resources crucial to fisheries; but changes in weather, currents and storminess are affecting the safety and effectiveness of fishing. Here we ask: What are the key risks from climate change to the eight large-scale fishery sectors of Namibia, and for the recreational and small-scale (artisanal) fisheries? For each fishery sector, we assessed three main risk components: (1) climate hazard exposure; (2) fish species sensitivity; and (3) socio-economic vulnerability. In combination, these three risk components are then used to calculate the overall climate risk for each fishery…”