Disputes loom as cooler
waters tempt fish
Paul Brown
As cooler waters tempt fish to escape growing warmth, international agreements on
fishing rights become outdated, heightening tensions between states.
A valuable food resources, according to research
by a consortium of 17 marine scientific
institutions led by the Institute for the Oceans
and Fisheries at the University of British
Columbia (UBC).
This is raising fears of conflict between
countries over one of the world’s most Fish and other marine animals have already
been moving at a rate of 45 miles a decade,
and these shifts are expected to continue or
even accelerate. The UBC study, published in
the journal Science, looked at 892 fish stocks
ccelerating climate change means
increasingly that cooler waters tempt
fish to more tolerable regions. The
result? Decades of diplomacy in
creating fishing agreements to fix quotas
and protect valuable species count for little,
because the fish are moving hundreds of miles
to distant seas.
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