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Northeast US Ecosystem Indicator Catalog

79 Community Risks Indicators (CEVRI)

Last updated July 23, 2026

Description: The dataset contains by year by community scores for community sensitivity to temperature, ocean acidification, stock size/status, total sensitivity, and total vulnerability based on Hare et al. 2016 [1] and Loughran et al. 2025 [113] species vulnerability and community dependency. Reciprocal Simpson’s Diversity scores for each community, Regional Quotients, and Regional climate vulnerability scores are also included.

Contributor(s): Tarsila Seara, Patricia Clay, Changhua Weng

Affiliations: NEFSC

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79.1 Introduction to Indicator

Coastal fishing communities are greatly affected by climate change, both because of their physical location and because of their frequent social, cultural, and economic dependence on fishing. These impacts are expected to become more pressing as climatic changes become more extensive. Changes in ocean temperature and acidification affecting marine life have the potential to directly impact fisheries and fishery dependent livelihoods. Coastal fishing communities worldwide have or are likely to experience social, economic, and cultural impacts from climate change, both negative (e.g., loss of infrastructure, fish stock decline) and positive (e.g., increased abundance of valuable species). Changes in marine fisheries as a consequence of climate change will require adaptation by coastal fishing communities and fisheries managers alike. The Community Climate Change Vulnerability Indicators were developed to help examine trends in climate change vulnerability in U.S. coastal fishing communities in the Northeast Region using indicators developed to understand fishing community level risk to climate change as based on species dependency.

79.2 Key Results and Visualizations

Regional level analyses (maps); Community level analysis (community profiles)

Mid-Atlantic, oaSum, propcomm

New England, oaSum, propcomm

Mid-Atlantic, tempSum, propcomm

New England, tempSum, propcomm

Mid-Atlantic, stckSum, propcomm

New England, stckSum, propcomm

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Mid-Atlantic, sensSum, propcomm

New England, sensSum, propcomm

Mid-Atlantic, vulnSum, propcomm

New England, vulnSum, propcomm

Mid-Atlantic, oaSum, regionrev

New England, oaSum, regionrev

Mid-Atlantic, tempSum, regionrev

New England, tempSum, regionrev

Mid-Atlantic, stckSum, regionrev

New England, stckSum, regionrev

Mid-Atlantic, sensSum, regionrev

New England, sensSum, regionrev

Mid-Atlantic, vulnSum, regionrev

New England, vulnSum, regionrev

Mid-Atlantic, oaSum, regionland

New England, oaSum, regionland

Mid-Atlantic, tempSum, regionland

New England, tempSum, regionland

Mid-Atlantic, stckSum, regionland

New England, stckSum, regionland

Mid-Atlantic, sensSum, regionland

New England, sensSum, regionland

Mid-Atlantic, vulnSum, regionland

New England, vulnSum, regionland

79.3 Implications

Not included.

79.4 Indicator statistics

Spatial scale: By community (not port) in all NE region

Temporal scale: Yearly 2000-2022; Maps: 5year average 2018-2022

Variable definitions

79.5 Get the data

Point of contact: Tarsila Seara ()

ecodata dataset: ecodata::community_risks

Tech Doc link: https://noaa-edab.github.io/tech-doc/community_risks.html

79.5.1 Public Availability

Source data are NOT publicly available.

79.5.2 Accessibility Constraints

No response

References

1.
Hare J, Morrison W, Nelson M, Stachura M, Teeters E, Griffis R. A Vulnerability Assessment of Fish and Invertebrates to Climate Change on the Northeast US Continental Shelf. PLoS ONE. 2016;11.
113.
Loughran TC, Cudney JL, Crear DP, Crawford LM, Curtis BJ, Gutierrez EM, et al. A climate vulnerability assessment for US highly migratory fishes in the Atlantic Ocean. PLOS Climate. Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA; 2025;4: e0000530.