PANDORA - advancing mixed fisheries simulations by taking into account climate change and economic projections

• Machine learning procedures were included in a novel framework to detect effects of environmental changes on the productivity of commercially-important cod-like fishes (gadoids) • Temperature and salinity largely cause the current low productivity of North Sea cod, which is likely to continue to worsen due to climate change. Therefore, successful management of North Sea mixed fisheries depends on strategies to avoid unwanted bycatch of cod. • Simulations with the bio-economic mixed fisheries simulation model FLBEIA highlight that fleets are impacted differently by climate change. Their future economic situation was informed by projected price and cost developments and influenced by their dependency on cod catches.