October 10, 2014 — Scores of the planet’s most vibrantly colorful and sought-after fish species will disappear from the tropics as soon as 2050, a new study finds, driven closer to the North and South Poles by seas made warmer by climate change.
This bodes ill not merely for the fish or just the Earth’s ecosystem.
“We’ll see a loss of fish populations that are important to the fisheries and communities in these regions,” researcher William Cheung, one of the study’s two authors, said of the tropics, according to the Irish Examiner. “This area has a high dependence on fish for food, diet and nutrition.