Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News for Students
Finding fish is going to get harder as climate change continues to heat the world’s oceans.
A new study finds that warming seas over the past 80 years have reduced the sustainable catch of 124 species of fish and shellfish.Sustainable catch refers to the amount that can be harvested without doing long-term damage to the health of populations of some species.
Overfishing has made that decline worse, researchers say. Overfishing refers to catching so many fish that the size of the population falls. In some parts of the world, such as the heavily fished Sea of Japan, the decrease is as high as…
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