December 19, 2014 — Increasing temperatures are pushing fish and crustaceans north in search of cooler waters along the east and west coasts of North America. The shift could have an effect on birds, marine mammals, and those who depend on fishing for food and income.
For example, lobsters that were once abundant off Long Island have moved to cooler waters of Maine while summer flounder and black sea bass, once common to the waters off Cape Hatteras, have moved north and are now more abundant off the coast of New Jersey.
“As temperatures have warmed in the waters off our coasts, animals with a low tolerance for that warming have just picked up and shifted,” says Malin Pinsky, assistant professor of ecology and evolution at Rutgers.
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