Data availability statement Data associated with this paper are available from the sources as referenced in the main text, all data was downloaded in November 2017. 1. Exposure data: HADGEM2-CC climate model, https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/projects/cmip5/, data under ‘CMIP5 Research’. 2. Extreme weather events, ‘Global Cyclone Hazard Frequency and Distribution’: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4CZ353K 3. Maritime boundaries geodatabase: http://www.marineregions.org/downloads.php, data under ‘world EEZ’. 4. Species sensitivity: https://obis.org/manual/access/, data under API, search for species by taxon name. Download .csv file. 5. Molluscan mariculture production value: http://www.fao.org/fishery/statistics/en, data under ‘Global aquaculture production’ accessed via online query, specify environment: ‘marine’, specify species: ‘molluscs’ (excluding ‘Squids, cuttlefishes, octopuses’), specify time: 2012, 2013, and 2014. Download .csv file. 6. Global GDP: https://data.worldbank.org/ , data under ‘Indicators’, then ‘GDP (current US$), specify: 2012, 2013, and 2014. Download .csv file. 7. Industry diversity in molluscan mariculture: http://www.fao.org/fishery/statistics/en data under ‘Global aquaculture production’ accessed via online query, specify country: select all nations, specify environment: ‘marine’, specify species: ‘molluscs’ (excluding ‘Squids, cuttlefishes, octopuses’), specify time: 2014. Download .csv file. 8. World-wide governance index: https://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/. Download full dataset. The data, as downloaded and transformed, are shown in the Supplementary material, Tables S1.