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We've talked about the sea’s warming waters before. We can look global climate change from many different perspectives, and one of those perspectives (or lens) is that no matter where you are on the Hugger-Hummer Spectrum, as a project manager, you should be looking through the “projects” lens. So what can we learn from a recent article from the UK.
The title of the article is “Warm water species spreading northward into British waters” from The Guardian, by Severin Carrell, Scotland Correspondent. The gist of the article is that because of the warming ocean temperatures, certain species of fish, like the Bluefin tuna, thresher shark, and anchovy are being seen more frequently in British waters. These are species common to southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Canary Islands, are being caught by fishermen off of southwestern England, and in some cases the North Sea.
Commercial fishermen are catching anchovies, red mullet and sea bass in greater quantities than the traditional cod and haddock, colder water species. Northern commercial fishermen are also targeting squid, a staple of Mediterranean restaurants. That may sound good to those who are fishing for the species, but it will probably adversely affect existing fisheries.
Non-native species will compete with native species for limited resources. Beside the competition, these non-native fish may introduce parasites and disease for which the native species have no resistance. One of the projects that may arise out of this change is what Richard Benyon, UK minister for the environment, calls a “whole-seas approach.” “If fish aren’t in certain parts of the sea, but are going elsewhere, we need to have fisheries management policies that will make sure they are more sustainable, wherever they are.” One of the factors involved in the project planning effort is that foreign vessels will now be competing for those shifting resources in conflict with local fishermen.
Prince Charles said that “while his international sustainability unit, a fisheries and environment thinktank funded by his charitable foundation, had established there were numerous success stories where fisheries were sustainable and secure, there were many that were not.” "Vast numbers of people around the world rely upon the sea. Their survival depends upon the ocean's capacity for renewal, which can only be maintained if we take an intelligent approach now," he told the congress.
From the article:
Sea creatures affected by rising temperatures
Farmed mussels: a study of commercial mussel farming in Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland found that if water temperatures rose by 1C, production would fall by 50%, and by 70% if temperatures rose by 4C. Non-native Pacific oysters would be less affected, declining by just 8% under both scenarios, suggesting shellfish farmers could switch to that species in future.
Boarfish: since 2001, there has been a "dramatic increase" in landings of boarfish, a bony, spiney fish which is ground into fish-meal for fish farms, as it has moved into the south-west approaches and the Celtic seas due to global warming. Last year, 130,000 tonnes of boarfish were landed.
Anchovy: the salty fish better known in the Mediterranean and Bay of Biscay, are moving northwards up the Irish and British coast and now being caught at commercial levels in the Channel and North Sea as far north as the Pentland Firth. About 800 tonnes were caught in south-west England in 2011 but biologists believe they are native stocks, which have bloomed in size with warmer British waters.
Salmon farming: fish-farming cages are very vulnerable to storms, which are expected to get more violent and more frequent as climate change takes hold, presenting economic and ecological risks as they escape and inter-breed with wild salmon. Scottish farmed salmon netted £563m in 2010 but over seven years, nearly 2.2m cultivated salmon escaped after storms, with about 820,000 fish escaping during one storm alone in 2005.
Bluefin tuna: once commonly fished in the North Sea until the population collapsed in the 1960s, Atlantic bluefin tuna have slowly started reappearing in the waters off south-west England: one was caught off Dorset last July. Now critically endangered through overfishing, and a favoured target species for sea anglers, there are demands for a total ban on fishing bluefins.
See if the plight of those “sea creatures” don’t inspire some projects.
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