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Despite historical resilience to natural environmental variability, fish, fisheries, and fisheries managers in high-latitude ecosystems are increasingly challenged by a rapidly changing environment (Mueter et al., 2021; Melbourne-Thomas et al., 2022; IPCC, 2022). Of particular and pressing concern, the Eastern Bering Sea (EBS) recently experienced extreme warming and a rapid decrease in ice extent and duration with profound cascading impacts on physical and biological conditions, including rapid and extensive∼ 1000 km poleward shifts in spatial distribution and declines in abundance for multiple crab and fish stocks (Hirawake and Hunt, 2020; Spies et al., 2020; Huntington et al., 2020; Jones et al., 2020). At the same time, regional fisheries managers at the North Pacific Fishery Management Council have initiated a climate change initiative to provide climate-informed advice for fisheries management …