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These linkages enable the flow of benefits, including food, livelihoods and government revenue, from tropical fisheries to extratropical locations. Fish from the tropics sold in temperate-zone markets provides jobs and revenue to tropical nations. That flow of benefits is threatened by the larger impact of climate change on tropical fishery systems. EEZs, exclusive economic zones. Credit: Lam et al, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Impact of climate change on tropical fisheries would create ripples across the world
August 7, 2020
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Tropical oceans and fisheries are threatened by climate change, generating impacts that will affect the sustainable development of both local economies and communities, and regions outside the tropics through 'telecoupling' of human-natural systems, such as seafood trade and distant-water fishing