Under the influence of climate change, global warming has intensified and the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events have increased, which has directly impacted Taiwan's fishery and aquaculture industries. In the face of the risks and uncertainties of climate change, Taiwan's fisheries and aquaculture industries must review adaptation measures on a rolling basis to maintain stable production of aquatic products, enhance the adaptive capacity of Taiwan's fishery and aquaculture industries, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability, and build a more resilient and sustainable production system. Fisheries Research Institute has unshirkable responsibilities and should actively face and respond to social needs. In order to understand fishermen’s perception of climate change, the difficulties encountered by the industry, the impact factors affecting the industry, and whether the research program on climate change adaptation strategies invested in by the Institute can attempt to solve the technical problems and dilemmas.
In the first phase of this study, an inventory of the Institute's research programs on climate change will be conducted to review the results of the adaptation strategies or the ongoing implementation of the research on different items of fisheries and aquaculture, to provide more specific goals and solutions for the technical problems, and to provide a reference basis for the formulation of adaptation strategies for the policy problems. In the second stage, we selected key aquatic products and listened directly to the problems and dilemmas faced by the fishery industry, and established an order of importance and a consensus. In the third stage, based on the results of the first two stages, the gap of climate change adaptation strategies for the key aquatic products and the outlook for future implementation were conducted.