Editor's View: In 2015 Climate Change Hits the Seafood Industry; We’re in for a Wild Ride
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Editor's View] by John Sackton - December 23, 2015
As I write this in Boston on December 23rd, highs are forecast in the 70’s. It is not just that we haven’t seen snow. The same thing is true in New Hampshire and Maine, hundreds of miles to the north.
The unsettling warmth is not just disrupting holiday ambiance. My wife had wanted to get sleds for our grandchildren this year and I felt what was the point since they couldn’t use them.
It is also disrupting the seafood industry on a global scale.
Our basic problem is that warming waters and changing weather patterns are increasing the volatility and unpredictability of seafood supply.
In the seafood industry, we have always accepted the variability inherent in depending on a wild resource. In some years, production can be spectacular, and in other years a bust… but in the past we always could be confident in a return to the mean. I am not sure that is true any more.
Three things in our news stories this week crystalized this for me....
To Read Full Story Login Below.