Seafood Sector Adaptation

Cawthron Institute, New Zealand’s largest independent science institute, and The Aotearoa Circle, a public private partnership whose purpose is to restore natural capital in New Zealand, have been working together to support industry sectors in Aotearoa to undertake Climate Adaptation Pathways Planning together, building on the work Cawthron has already done with communities in the Pacific Islands.

This work supported the Aotearoa Circle’s Seafood Sector Adaptation Strategy by holding four workshops – with the mussel and salmon aquaculture industries, and the hoki and snapper fisheries. The Aotearoa Circle is now working on a toolkit for the Seafood Sector to help apply those learnings to other industries within the sector.

Building Resilient Pacific Communities

One of Cawthron Institute’s strategic research priorities is to support resilient communities in the Pacific, through research into the potential of integrated coastal production systems to produce nutritious, sustainable and climate-adapted food. With funding support from Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACAIR), Cawthron has been working with research partners and communities in the Solomon Islands and Kiribati, using climate adaptation pathways planning as a tool to support the transformation of coastal food systems.

• Seafood Sector Adaptation Strategy — The Aotearoa Circle

Transforming Pacific coastal food production systems | ACIAR