Dr. Rashid Sumaila, a professor and director of the Fisheries Centre & the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at UBC, writes about how changing temperatures and ocean chemistry will impact the growth and reproduction of Canada’s marine fish species.
“Given the predicted biophysical and ecological effects of the new threats, they will affect the economics of fishing because both the quantity and quality of marine fish catch would be impacted,” writes Sumaila.
“Governments have generally been reactive rather than anticipatory in their response to declining fishing opportunities,” he writes. “Reducing greenhouse gas emissions would substantially diminish the ecological impacts of ocean warming on fish stocks and thus minimize its economic effects.”
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