Redfish, bluefish, no fish: Climate change threatens traditional fishing waters

The chances of climate change causing significant disruption to saltwater fisheries are pretty high, according to a NOAA Fisheries climate vulnerability assessment that’s on its way to finalization.

All of the species examined, except for the Atlantic sturgeon, are at a very high level of exposure to elements of climate change, and many have an increased sensitivity to those changes, like the gag grouper, goliath grouper, horseshoe crab, and each of the brown, pink and white shrimp species.

Read more in this piece from Wes Wolfe in Florida Politics.

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