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Article: Tropical Regions to be Hardest Hit by Fisheries Shifts Caused by Climate Change
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Major shifts in fisheries distribution due to climate change will
affect food security in tropical regions most adversely, according
to a study led by the Sea Around Us Project at The University of
British Columbia.
In the first major study to examine the effects of climate change
on ocean fisheries, a team of researchers from UBC and Princeton
University finds that climate change will produce major shifts in
productivity of the ...