straddling_stocks_cc

This repository is intended to support the project Fish movement across the high seas and exclusive economic zones under climate change (tentative title)

Authors: Juliano Palacios-Abrantes, Gabriel Reygondeau, U. Rashid Sumaila, Colette C. C. Wabnitz & William W. L. Cheung

*Corresponding author: Juliano Palacios-Abrantes, [email protected]

Project Goal:

Identify straddles between the high seas and EEZs and investigate the effects of climate-induced distribution shifts on the sharing of straddling stocks.

i) which stocks straddle between the high seas and global EEZs

ii) weather climate change will affect the proportion of the distribution between EEZs and the high-seas.

Files and folders organization:

In this repository you will find all of the code related to the manuscript

Folders

• results: main results of analysis including final figures and tables

• scripts: scripts needed to run the analysis

  • main_analysis, scipr containing the main analysis of the study

• functions: contains the script with all functions called on main_analaysis script

Data

The raw data used in this analysis comes from different sources including OBIS, GBIF, The Sea Around Us, and FishBase, among others. These can be sourced directly from their respectively webpages and/or the references provided on the text. The data containing the identification of transboundary species per eez and fishing nation and the catch trend of each taxon per eez can be found here. Please feel free to email me to discuss anything related to data sharing or code reproducibility.