Measuring Baltic herring.

Taking seriously the explanations on shrinking fish in a warming world

Measuring Baltic herring.

Measuring Baltic herring. Photo by Aleksey Kusnetsov, Wikimedia Commons.

As climate change continues to warm and deoxygenate ocean water, the size of fish, aquatic molluscs and crustaceans is showing a concerning reduction pattern. This pattern manifests a life history in which the animals exposed to rising temperatures grow fast when they are young but mature at smaller sizes than before and their final body sizes are also smaller than they used to be.

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Marine and Freshwater Miscellanea

Sea Around Us produces new ‘miscellanea’ report

Marine and Freshwater Miscellanea

The Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, and communications officer, Valentina Ruiz-Leotaud, have produced a new Fisheries Centre Research Report titled Marine and Freshwater Miscellanea V.

As its four predecessors, this document presents a diverse range of topics that offer substantial contributions to the field of fisheries science and which, if not published as an FCRR, might have remained stored away in individual researchers’ desks or computers.

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