Posted on 06/15/2018 6:43:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Atlantic mackerel, a fatty schooling fish, for years has been caught by fleets in parts of Europe and sold around the world—where it gets pickled, grilled, smoked, and fried. It is among the United Kingdom's key exports.
But a decade ago, warming temperatures began driving this popular fish north, into seas controlled by Iceland. Almost overnight, this seafood gold began shredding relations between some of the world's most stable governments. It led to unsustainable fishing, trade embargoes, and boat blockades. It even helped convince Iceland to drop its bid to join the EU. And that was among friendly nations.
Welcome to the climate-change food threat you may not have considered.
In many parts of the world overfishing is already draining the ocean of important sea life. But a paper published today in the journal Science suggests potentially explosive ocean fish wars are likely to simmer across the world as warming temperatures drive commercial fish species poleward into territories controlled by other nations, setting up conflicts with sometimes hostile neighbors that are suddenly forced to share. That could lead to far fewer fish, economic declines and, in some areas, serious threats to food security.
Climate change has hundreds of species around the world moving toward the poles in search of colder waters, sometimes by hundreds of miles. And fishing rules and regulations simply cannot keep up.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
It’s not clear how overfishing and climate change are related.
May...possibly...could...we speculate...
Oh, such great certainty!
What a disappointment! The article is about fishing fleets. I was expecting something more interesting.
Fish swim helping create movement in the water. You know, like the old “if a butterfly flaps it’s wings near the equator a devastating hurricane develops someplace” story. Or something.
They’ll say and do anything to get the “unwashed masses” to buy into their BS.
Follow the money trail: what they’re really after is the billions of dollars in potential tax revenue that they can rip off from the “unwashed masses”.
The insane bassturds ought to be tried and hanged.
Stop fat-shaming fish. They are just big boned.
I overslept and was late for work. Damn you, Climate Change!
Without any REAL science everything is contributed to climate change so Man is always at fault until the race of Man submits to the one world governing faction and new world order. By the way I dropped my keys in the driveway 3 times in the last week and within 24 hours of each incident it rained. If anyone wants my key drop, rain-making services I charge reasonable rates if you pay my transportation and per diem. Same “science”.
I pretty much stopped reading, right there.
What a delightful sign board!
Genesis chapter 1 verse 1.
In the beginning GOD....
And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story
Thanks
NOTHING is static.
$hit happens or better said, CHANGE happens (constantly). Sometimes faster than others, but it is continuous.
Just because fish are here one day and there another shouldn’t surprise anyone. Fish go wherever they want to.
People/Humans don’t like change. Yeah? Well guess what?
IT’S NOT UP TO YOU!
One day, the Swallows may just decide to go somewhere else.
Sounds like they over-fished locally to me and now have to go out further, but if you can blame it on globull warming then it’s everybody else’ fault.
If Atlantic Mackerel are moving to the North Atlantic, it can only mean one thing. Anthropogenic Red Herring are moving South.
The waters are not "warming". The ocean is very slow to change. The only temperature differential is very close to the surface and in narrow areas where the Gulf Stream flows, all very normal.
How do they know all the fish went to iceland? Probably not. And if fish went to Iceland how do they know the reason? Did they ask Mister Limpet?
Thanks! I was hoping someone would post this.
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