Saturday, March 3, 2007

Warming Climate, Cod Collapse, Have Combined To Cause Rapid North Atlantic Ecosystem Changes




Algae and copepod species near the bottom of the food chain have increased in the Northwest Atlantic shelf ecosystems.


Why haven’t the cod been able to rebound in numbers?

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Dan Morash said...

This is an excellence article, and global climate change most likely has effected what happened to the cod slightly. However in the case of the cod numbers depleting in the way they did, I believe it was almost fully due to the over fishing and poor management of this species over the year, and only slightly due to climate change.
Although now, climate change might by the main reason the cod are unable to rebound in numbers. Since a moratorium has been in place for over the last ten years and the over fishing aspect is gone, climate change is the only reasonable explanation to why the cod have not been able to rebound in numbers.

March 3, 2007 at 9:12 AM

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