Fisheries and marine ecosystems are challenged globally by climate change with subsequent biological and socio-ecological implications. Adaptation represents one pathway by which management agencies can seek to ensure sustainability of these resources for societal well-being, particularly when based on strong scientific evidence. Here, we examined the extent of primary scientific literature that is currently available to inform climate adaption initiatives for Australian fisheries. This is achieved via a systematic literature review for 99 harvested Australian marine species, aimed at identifying primary scientific articles that reported new knowledge of climate-driven biological changes and/or socio-ecological implications. We then assessed the quantity of scientific literature against estimated relative climate sensitivity scores for each species (from a previous study), and investigated factors that may influence relative research effort. We found that two-thirds of species had no peer-reviewed climate-related literature available, and that research effort among Australian fisheries species is most closely related to the number of commercial fish stocks per species, and commercial catch weight. We also found that the south-east and western Australian regions had the most climate-related biological information to support climate adaptation in fisheries management. Nonetheless, although accumulating knowledge of the biological and socio-ecological implications of climate change is important, increasing knowledge alone is insufficient to maintain the productivity and profitability of Australian fisheries in light of projected climate impacts. We suggest that the further use of this knowledge to inform decision-making processes is essential to ensure that climate adaptation options are fully explored, to allow sustainable and productive fisheries.

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准备好改变了吗？对支持澳大利亚渔业气候适应的知识现状的评估

渔业和海洋生态系统在全球范围内受到气候变化的挑战，随之而来的生物和社会生态影响。适应代表了管理机构可以寻求确保这些资源的可持续性以促进社会福祉的一种途径，特别是在基于强有力的科学证据的情况下。在这里，我们检查了目前可用于为澳大利亚渔业气候适应举措提供信息的主要科学文献的范围。这是通过对 99 种收获的澳大利亚海洋物种的系统文献综述来实现的，旨在确定报告气候驱动的生物变化和/或社会生态影响的新知识的主要科学文章。然后，我们根据每个物种的估计相对气候敏感性评分（来自之前的研究）评估了科学文献的数量，并调查了可能影响相关研究工作的因素。我们发现三分之二的物种没有经过同行评审的气候相关文献，澳大利亚渔业物种的研究工作与每个物种的商业鱼类种群数量和商业捕捞重量密切相关。我们还发现，澳大利亚东南部和西部地区拥有最多与气候相关的生物信息，以支持渔业管理中的气候适应。尽管如此，尽管积累有关气候变化的生物和社会生态影响的知识很重要，鉴于预计的气候影响，仅增加知识不足以维持澳大利亚渔业的生产力和盈利能力。我们建议进一步利用这些知识为决策过程提供信息对于确保充分探索气候适应选项至关重要，以实现可持续和高产的渔业。