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I thank Madame Chair Cantwell, Ranking Member Snowe, and the other Members of the Subcommittee for the opportunity to describe to you the likely consequences of climate change on marine fisheries. My name is David Conover. I am the Dean and Director of the Marine Sciences Research Center of Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York. My research expertise involves the ecology and natural history of marine fishes and the impacts of harvesting and other human influences on wild fish populations. Of particular relevance to the subject of this hearing, I have devoted much of my 30-year career to studying the physiological mechanisms by which fish adapt evolutionarily to climate change. Much of this work concerns species that live along the east coast of
North America from Florida to the Canadian maritimes, a region that encompasses dramatic changes in climate. We can learn a lot about what to expect from climate change by studying species that span the U.S. east coast.