Fisheries and Climate Toolkit

The Fisheries and Climate Toolkit (FaCeT) is a bi-coastal platform that allows users to track fisheries-relevant physical and biological ocean features across multiple timescales to support climate-ready and sustainable fisheries.

FaCeT uses the fundamental principles of dynamic ocean management to develop innovative, transformative, and actionable science.

Funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), FaCeT is an ongoing Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting project that informs climate-ready and sustainable fisheries practices.

The FaCeT team is developing a set of tools and applications that will:

visualize dynamic species and vessel distributions
track velocity and magnitude of oceanographic habitat and target species population change
inform fishing portfolio diversification
address and communicate climate uncertainty in fisheries

Learn more about this project

FaCeT Website

FaCeT Toolkit

Project Partners and Collaborators

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission

Ocean Conservancy

Project Funder

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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