A study suggests, that warming seas might push traditional British favourites off the menu.
Several types of fish such as haddock, lemon sole and plaice can slowly disappear from the North Sea if the predictions will be correct - 1.8 degrees over 50 years. Warmer temperature in the sea, according to models presented by the scientists, might draw other species that have never lived in British seas, such as John Dory and red mullet. This mean, that consumers, that wish to eat locally-caught fish might need to change their diet preferences.
Scientists say, as the seas are getting warmer, most fish species should migrate north and adapt quite easily, but others, such as many types of flat fish are at risk, as they will not be able to adapt to northern waters, which are deep and rocky. Unless the flat fish can change their habitats or adapt to 2 degrees more warming within the next 20-30 years, their existence is at risk.
Warming waters do not mean that British seas will be empty, as warmer water fish would likely take place of the migrating cod and haddock. The scientists explain, that British waters within the next 50 years could become more like the waters of Spain and Portugal.
