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Capacity-building: key to reducing vulnerability of

artisanal fisheries and small-scale aquaculture to

Aquaculture Updates by Region
climate change in Chile

©FAO/COPAS Sur-Austral uncertainty about the impacts of climate change on this

Successful closure of the b-Learning diploma course on Climate Change Adaptation in Fisheries and Aquaculture.
Top corner, left: Luis Cubillos Santander, Centro COPAS Sur-Austral, Universidad de Concepción.
Bottom corner, left: Ms Alicia Gallardo Lagno, Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture; right: Ms Eve Crowley, FAO Representative in Chile.

hile’s fisheries and aquaculture sector is well productive sector and on the livelihoods of fishers; in
Cdeveloped, but to date the effects of climate addition, the sector also lacks appropriate assessments
change scarcely have been considered. The low levels of to determine local vulnerability with a focus on artisanal
professional training and experience in climate change fishing and small-scale aquaculture.
issues, the limited availability of technology, a lack of
established best practices, and management problems are This article presents some of the main components
all factors that make it difficult to incorporate measures needed to reduce the vulnerability of artisanal fisheries
to adapt to climate change. There is, therefore, strong and small-scale aquaculture to climate change in terms
of awareness and capacity-building. Both of these
components are addressed in the project “Strengthening
Written by: the adaptive capacity to climate change in the fisheries
José Aguilar-Manjarrez and aquaculture sector of Chile”, which has been executed
E-mail: Jose.AguilarManjarrez@fao.org
by the Undersecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture
FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (SUBPESCA) and the Ministry of the Environment
Santiago, Chile
(MMA), and implemented by the Food and Agriculture
Ricardo Norambuena Cleveland
E-mail: Rnorambuena@oceanografia.udec.cl Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding
from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The pilot
Centro COPAS Sur-Austral, Universidad de Concepción
project, which started in April 2017 and ends in June
Carlos Tapia Jopia 2021, is concentrated in four coves: Caleta Riquelme,
E-mail: Carlostapia@cesso.cl
in the Tarapacá region; Caleta Tongoy, in the Coquimbo
Centro de Estudios de Sistemas Sociales
region; Caleta Coliumo, in the Biobío region; and
Luisa Saavedra Löwenberger Caleta El Manzano-Hualaihué, in the Los Lagos region,
E-mail: Lu.Saavedra07@gmail.com which altogether represent part of the diversity of the
Centro EULA, Universidad de Concepción
communities dedicated to fishing and/or aquaculture.

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