The Climate-Resilient Fisheries Planning Tool guides users through a six-step process to assess their fishery’s climate resilience and identify approaches and priority actions to help build resilience in their fishery. The tool is based on rigorous scientific research, analysis of case studies exploring climate resilience in various fisheries, and expert consensus regarding key actions for climate resilience. It can be used even when detailed data on current and projected climate impacts are not available. The tool facilitates an assessment of ecological, socio-economic, and governance dimensions of a fishery that enables users to prioritize interventions across these dimensions based on the planning goals, expected climate impacts, and resilience attributes present in the fishery. Through a six-step process, it supports users in developing a set of actionable interventions and priorities to operationalize climate resilience in the fishery. The steps are presented on a series of web pages with a downloadable workbook providing a worksheet for each step. After completing Steps 1-6, tool users come away with a prioritized list of potential actions aimed at building climate resilience that can be used to build a fishery climate resilience plan.

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