The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020

CLIMATE CHANGE RISK
VULNERABILITY
IMPACT ON MARINE
CAPTURE FISHERIES
NUTRITIONAL DEPENDENCE ON
MARINE CAPTURE FISHERIES
ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE ON
MARINE CAPTURE FISHERIES
DEVELOPMENT SCORE
FIGURE A
COMPOSITION OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE RISK SCORE
SOURCE: FAO.
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THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 
2020
risk from projected changes in catch potential are, for 
the most part, located in the tropical coastal regions of 
sub-Saharan Africa, in addition to several small island 
States in the Pacific. Benin, Kiribati, Liberia, 
Mauritania, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Solomon 
Islands and Togo all score consistently highly across all 
combinations (Figure B). Outside of sub-Saharan Africa 
and the Pacific, Cambodia and Haiti are also 
consistently placed in the group of States at very high 
risk of suffering significant negative effects from climate 
change due to a combination of high projected 
(negative) changes in catch potential and high social 
and economic vulnerability. 
Although mitigation strategies and policy decisions 
will need to be developed and implemented on a 
region-by-region basis, this preliminary study provides 
a general framework for identifying priority States and 
targeting high-impact future intervention efforts. These 
priority interventions could be carried out with key FAO