January 17, 2020 — The four-year EU research project ClimeFish has established that there will be more factors than just water temperature at play as the full effects of climate change hit Norwegian salmon over the next five decades.
According to Elisabeth Ytteborg, a scientist at the research group Nofima, who collaborated with the UK’s University of Stirling on the project, local factors play a much bigger role than previously assumed on fish health as marine temperatures rise.
Although it has previously been determined that salmon die when water temperature hits 23°C, there has reportedly been a case that saw salmon died at a significantly lower temperature, 20°C.