Two specimens of chub mackerel in a basket

Mean Temperature of the Catch now available on Sea Around Us website

Two specimens of chub mackerel in a basket

Global warming is expected to push stocks of highly migratory straddling species in the Indo-Pacific, such as chub mackerel, from EEZs toward the high seas by mid-century. Photo by Matsumomushi, Wikimedia Commons.

Sea Around Us website users will now be able to access the Mean Temperature of the Catch (MTC), as an ecosystem indicator derived from the reconstructed catches of a large fraction of the 283 Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) presented on our website.

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