Fig 1.
Overview of variable construction and calculation of vulnerability index.
Fig 2.
Average annual sea surface temperature anomalies at representative concentration pathways 2.6 and 8.5 for two different 35-year timeframes (2016–2050; 2066–2100) compared with a reference climatology (1900–1950).
Table 1.
National vulnerability to the impacts of climate change on marine fisheries.
Table 2.
Overview of economic groupings across the vulnerability index (E: exposure; S: sensitivity; AC: adaptive capacity; V: vulnerability).
Table 3.
Geographical distribution of vulnerability.
Table 4.
Five most vulnerable and five least vulnerable countries across different representative concentration pathways (RCPs) and timeframes.
Fig 3.
Negative correlation between per capita carbon emissions (metric tons per capita) and states’ vulnerability to the impacts of climate change on fisheries (Spearman’s ρ = -0.60, R2 = 0.300, p < 0.0001).
Red points indicate Least Developed Countries (LDCs), and green points indicate Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member states. The remaining grey points are neither OECD states nor LDCs.