Forty-year-old concepts around fish respiration regain prominence in light of climate change

Before Dr. Daniel Pauly, now the principal investigator of the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia, became a doctoral student, he spent two years doing fisheries work in Indonesia. Having done his academic studies in Germany, he was surprised to discover a near absence of information on the growth…

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Large fish more vulnerable to climate change-induced fish kills

Climate change-induced droughts and fish kills affect larger fish more severely than smaller individuals, according to new research. In a paper published in Environmental Biology of Fishes, researchers from Leiden University, Sportvisserij Zuidwest Nederland and the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia compared evidence from drought-induced…

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