Study: Warming Temperatures Threaten Ocean's Biggest Fish

2023-09-28

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  • A new study has warned that warming ocean temperatures could threaten some of the largest fish in the sea.
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  • Many scientists believe warming waters are directly linked to the effects of climate change.
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  • Research has shown that rising sea temperatures are especially dangerous for larger fish because warmer waters can harm their open-water environments.
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  • In one recent study, researchers estimated some larger fish species could lose up to 70 percent of their environment, or habitat, by the year 2100.
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  • These habitat losses could largely remove some of the most economically valuable fish species.
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  • The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts carried out the study.
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  • The warning comes after temperatures around the world reached record highs in July.
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  • Some scientists blame the Pacific Ocean current known as El Niño for the recent heat waves.
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  • El Niño is a warming of surface water temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean.
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  • The event usually causes hot, dry weather in Asia and Australia.
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  • It can also lead to heavier rain in the southern U.S. and southern parts of South America.
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  • Large fish - such as marlin, skipjack and others - live in areas considered among the fastest warming.
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  • Camrin Braun is an ocean scientist and the lead writer of the Woods Hole study.
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  • He told the Associated Press that temperatures in those environments are expected to rise as much as six degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
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  • Such increases would likely start a widespread displacement of the animals, Braun said.
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  • "For sure, their habitat will change. How they respond to that is an open question," he added.
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  • Climate scientists have been studying the heating of the world's oceans for many years.
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  • Earlier in 2023, average ocean surface temperatures climbed two-tenths of a degree Celsius in a period of just a few weeks.
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  • The jump surprised even scientists who are used to seeing continued rising temperatures.
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  • For large species, longer periods of warming can be harmful because of the animals' temperature needs, said Janet Duffy-Anderson.
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  • She is chief scientific officer at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine.
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  • Duffy-Anderson said large fish are often highly migratory.
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  • Increased warming could result in some species moving to northern or deeper waters in search of normal temperatures, she added.
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  • The Gulf of Maine lies off the northeastern US and Canada.
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  • It is warming especially quickly.
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  • This is expected to cause big population movements, especially for species of marlin and tuna.
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  • Large fish are important to healthy oceans because many of them, such as white sharks, are predators serving as critical pieces of the top of the food chain.
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  • Some species are also economically important to humans as food.
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  • The possible loss of large fish is one of the many results of warming oceans that scientists have warned about this year.
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  • One study said the collapse of ocean currents that transport heat northward across the North Atlantic could happen by mid-century.
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  • In Florida, federal ocean researchers said some ocean coral were losing their color weeks earlier than normal because of record temperatures.
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  • Penny Becker is with the Seattle-based environmental group Island Conservation.
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  • She told the AP the threat to large fish is another reason to raise awareness about the different ways climate change is affecting sea life.
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  • "If you're missing these components of these larger fish species, that's a missing hole in the ecosystem," Becker said.
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  • I'm Bryan Lynn.