Canada to see large shifts in fish habitat from climate change: study
Research says climate change is driving hundreds of fish species north from their usual seas and some of the biggest effects will be along Canada’s Pacific coast.
That is likely to create new challenges for governments seeking to regulate and share catches between competing jurisdictions, said James Morley of Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Morley found that even if climate change is kept under two degrees, species off Canada’s west coast will move by an average of more than 200 kilometres.
“Even in the best-case scenario, on the west coast we still expect to see some pretty substantial shifts of species northward.”