Warming waters endanger fish health
New evidence is emerging that climate change could join overfishing as a major threat to the world's seafood supplies.
While Australia – a small producer on a global scale, accounting for only 0.2 per cent of the world's seafood – has relatively healthy fisheries, it is suddenly and quite brutally feeling the effects of warming ocean waters.
Associate Ptofessor Shauna Murray concluded last year that species of the algal genus, responsible for ciguatera poisoning in 13 people on the north coast of NSW in 2014, had been found in bloom proportions in south-eastern Australia for the first time. The disease is one normally associated with the tropics. Associate Professor Murray leads the Seafood Safety Program in the Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster.
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