Fish - eries

There's been a lot written in recent years about the plight of the world's fisheries.  Many of them are in real trouble as the result of overfishing.  One result has been a shift toward reliance on invertebrates like prawns, lobsters, and mollusks.  New research from the Environment Department at York suggests that these new, shellfish-dependent fisheries, may be subject to collapse with increasing stress from climate change.  The authors, in a paper appearing in Fish and Fisheries, suggest that it's imperative that we continue to work toward restoring the health of finfish based fisheries, and stress the need to marine protected areas to allow the restoration of diversity and productivity.