Ocean warming detrimental to inshore fish species

8:44 AM Mon 18 Apr 2011 GMT

'Banded morwong. Image credit - Rick Stuart-Smith' University of Tasmania Click Here to view large photo

The findings of a study published today in Nature Climate Change indicate negative effects on the growth of a long-lived south-east Australian and New Zealand inshore species - the banded morwong. Scientific monitoring since 1944 by CSIRO at Maria Island, off the east coast of Tasmania, showed that surface water temperatures in the Tasman Sea have risen by nearly 2?C over the past 60 years. This warming, one of the most rapid in the southern hemisphere oceans, is due to globally increasing sea-surface temperatures and local effects caused by southward extension of the East Australian Current. 'Generally, cold-blooded animals respond ...

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