ABSTRACT
The author aims to examine the links between the warming of sea water in Baja, California, and the low catches of gulf corvina reported by Cocopah fishermen in 2015. Fisheries and environmental authorities all know that a healthy brackish ecosystem is key to maintaining the gulf corvina's spawning environment. The author aims to understand the concept of climate change as a process, and as a combination of human action/factors and natural causes. Unlike the effects of climate change in land ecosystems, the plan does include a list of mitigating actions to reduce risks for agriculture and tourism. The author's interest is to analyse its exacerbation of the existing social vulnerability of Cocopah fisher households in Baja, California. The concepts of nature and the non-human have been shaped in a specific socio-historical context of extractive economic practices in the Colorado River delta for the past century.
