Climate Change will shrink your fish and chips

Last December British Fish and Chips was going to become Squid and Chips thanks to Climate Change. This year, cod will become anchovies. Battered anchovie anyone? British Fish and chips have been dying for a decade.

Now, apparently, fish are shrinking, thanks to falling oxygen levels in the seas?

By 2050, the size of fish could shrink by 10 – 20 per cent, Dr William Cheung, a marine ecologist at the University of British Columbia, Canada, forecast.

Dr Cheung, who gave a keynote address at the 50th Anniversary Symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles at Exeter University this week, said some fish in the North Sea, including haddock, were already getting smaller.

He predicted the trend would continue with common species such as cod shrinking by up to a fifth within our lifetime.

The marine ecologist said fish are shrinking because climate change is reducing the oxygen in the seas available for fish to breath.

The marine ecologist went on to say that because oceans are warming, fish that swim around Portugal and Spain will call the UK home.

Right now the ocean around the UK is 17C — […]