and enhance the sustainability food security of the country. As response to this current situation, fisheries vulnerability assessment tool (Fish Vool) was developed to address the impacts of climate change on fishery sector to ensure continued fish productivity and food security. Fish Vool is a vulnerability assessment tool which provides an effective data collection for assessing the potential impacts of climate change to fisheries sector, specifically tuna and sardines sectors in the area. This tool enables to identify the area that is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Unlike any other vulnerability assessment tool, Fish Vool is made simple by not requiring an extensive computing resources and technology. It is highly comprehensive without the use of complex methods. The analytical approach for integrating scores is straight forward and devoid of highly sophisticated mathematical methods and data analysis were done using a simple-quantitative approach using the cross-tabulation (Punnet square) method by Mamauag et al. (VA-TURF). The approach does not require extensive datasets and can incorporate expert judgments as well as locally relevant knowledge to assess vulnerability. 1.5. FISH VOOL FRAMEWORK In the development of Fish Vool, key concepts of vulnerability assessment mentioned by Allison et al. (2009) were considered with the following guidelines: • • • • • • Exposure to the climate risk and disasters (frequency and intensity) Sensitivity/resiliency of fisheries resources to climate risk Assessment of adaptive capacity of the fisheries sector Identification of potential hazards and exposure Socio-economic of fisherfolks Economic valuation of risk and impact to fisheries sector Exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity are major components in measuring the vulnerability. In definition, exposure is the measure of the intensity or severity of the physical environment conditions that affect the present state of the biophysical system. Sensitivity is the present state of the system based on the specific properties that respond to the exposure factors arising from climate changes. Adaptive capacity is defined to be the resiliency or the ability of the system to cope with the impacts associated with the changes in climate. Definitions of these 3 major components of vulnerability were all adopted from Licuanan et al. (2012). Using the abovementioned key concepts of vulnerability assessment, the framework for development of Fish Vool was modified by incorporating three (3) sub-components for fisheries sector, namely: fish, human and community. Illustrated in figure 1 is the conceptual framework of the development of fisheries vulnerability assessment tool (Fish Vool). 3|Fish Vool