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A place at the table?

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An oft-forgotten source of food security and livelihoods, fisheries must be included in ongoing discussions of how the world’s most vulnerable can adapt to climate change.

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Figure 1: Unequal vulnerability.

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  1. Nicholas Dulvy is the Canada Research Chair in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. nick_dulvy@sfu.ca,

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  2. Edward Allison is the Director of Policy, Economics and Social Sciences at the WorldFish Center, Penang, Malaysia. e.allison@cgiar.org,

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