Fisheries
Experts: Climate change is altering fishing industry in North and Baltic seas
Climate change alters the fishing industry and the impact is already being felt, according to experts at fish international.
Responsibility
California shellfish farmers need greater support to face effects of climate change, OSU study finds
A new study found California shellfish farmers need improved access to data and stronger connections to adapt to the effects of climate change.
Responsibility
Expanding mariculture ‘vital’ to world’s food security, study finds
A new study has found that expanding mariculture will be “vital” to ensuring food security, but seafood's future hinges on climate action.
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Experts: World’s coral reefs could vanish by 2050 without climate action
An international team of environmental scientists warn that the world’s coral reefs are likely to disappear by 2050 without climate action.
Intelligence
NOAA launches mapping tool for marine species to prepare for climate change
NOAA Fisheries has launched a new mapping tool for marine species, which will help prepare fisheries management for climate change.
Responsibility
Study: Climate change will shuffle marine ecosystems in unexpected ways as ocean temperature warms
A study found that, as the ocean temperature warms, fish will continue to exist in certain areas but are not likely to be as abundant.
Responsibility
Give and take: Aquaculture in a future of rising sea levels
With rising sea levels inevitable, aquaculture faces existential uncertainties and confronts its own contributions to the problem.
Responsibility
Study: Some fish species can change faster to cope with ocean acidification
A new study found that some fish species evolve faster to cope with ocean acidification, helping maintain population size and biodiversity.
Responsibility
As ocean acidification threatens the shellfish industry, this California oyster farm is raising oysters resistant to climate change
Despite the dangers to shellfish posed by ocean acidification, a forward-thinking California oyster farm is producing oysters resistant to climate change.
Fisheries
Study: Climate change is likely ‘suffocating’ the world’s fisheries
A new study indicates the ocean is losing oxygen due to climate change, greatly affecting fisheries and other marine resources.
Responsibility
Climate change mitigation needs mariculture, new research concludes
NGO-academic collaborative study finds that mariculture “done right” can aid climate change mitigation by cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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Study: COVID-19 disrupted fish farming, but not as much as climate change
According to a new global study of fish farms, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t been as damaging as climate change.
Fisheries
Increasingly frequent and costly, marine heatwaves are testing the resilience of fisheries and aquaculture
Marine heatwaves have already caused severe losses for seafood, but in some cases, the industry may see some benefits from these events.
Health & Welfare
University of Waterloo opens research facility to study effects of climate change on fish stress
The University of Waterloo has opened a new research facility to study the effects of climate change on fish stress.
Responsibility
Study: 2021 breaks record for hottest ocean temperature
New research shows the ocean temperature in 2021 was the hottest ever recorded by humans, and the effects of ocean warming are "far-reaching."
Responsibility
Norwegian researchers addressing climate change-related stress
Nofima is developing a methodology to help aquaculture understand climate-change-related stress for species like cod, salmon and lumpfish.