Coastal Resilience Talks: Advancing resilient marine fisheries in a changing ocean

The Decade Collaborative Centre for Coastal Resilience, together with its Partner Alliance Network, continues its Coastal Resilience Talks series with an upcoming webinar featuring Dr. Katherine (Kathy) Mills (Gulf of Maine Research Institute), focusing on climate resilience in marine fisheries.

The webinar will take place on 28 April 2026 and is part of the DCC-CR’s ongoing efforts to promote knowledge exchange and dialogue on coastal and marine resilience within the framework of the UN Ocean Decade.

The session will present the FishSCORE2030 Ocean Decade Programme (Fisheries Strategies for a Changing Ocean and Resilient Ecosystems by 2030), a global initiative aimed at supporting the resilience of marine fisheries in the face of climate change.

FishSCORE2030 is one of the Decade Actions affiliated with the DCC-CR, bringing together programmes and projects that contribute to the Ocean Decade and are aligned with shared challenges and objectives. Through this network, the DCC-CR fosters collaboration and exchange among initiatives addressing coastal resilience.

The programme works to develop integrated assessment and modelling frameworks that combine ecological, social, cultural, economic, and governance dimensions of fisheries systems. By drawing on evidence and experiences from diverse contexts worldwide, it aims to identify vulnerabilities and support actionable adaptation strategies.

In particular, FishSCORE2030 seeks to:

• build a global network to facilitate knowledge exchange and learning
• develop tools to assess climate impacts, vulnerabilities, and adaptive capacity
• apply and refine these approaches across real-world fishery systems
• contribute to advancing healthy ecosystems, resilient fisheries, and equitable outcomes

The webinar will provide insights into how science-based approaches and international collaboration can support fisheries facing increasing climate pressures, highlighting both methodological developments and practical applications.

Webinar's Abstract

Climate change is causing direct, indirect, and cascading impacts on marine fisheries. FishSCORE2030 (Fisheries Strategies for a Changing Ocean and Resilient Ecosystems by 2030), a UN Ocean Decade endorsed program, facilitates a global network to co-develop knowledge, information and approaches to sustain resilient marine fisheries in changing oceans.

About the Speaker

Dr. Katherine Mills is a Senior Scientist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. Her research seeks to understand fisheries as coupled social-ecological systems, integrating physical, biological, social and economic information to support the resilience of marine fisheries.