MORLEY ET AL., THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS
Researchers projected the habitat shifts under a high-emissions scenario and a low-emissions scenario.
By Martin Finucane GLOBE STAFF
Hundreds of fish and invertebrate species will be forced to shift north to seek relief from warming waters, potentially disrupting the fishing industry on both the East and West Coasts of the United States and Canada, according to a study from Rutgers University.
Some habitats will move as much as 900 miles north because of the warming waters brought by climate change, researchers said.
“We’ve already seen that shifts of a couple of hundred miles in a species’ range can disrupt fisheries,” James Morley, a former postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers New Brunswick, said in a statement from the university. “This study shows that such dislocations will happen all over the continent and on both coasts throughout the 21st century.”
Among the species most affected will be Pacific rockfish, black sea bass, and Atlantic cod, the Rutgers statement said.
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