The climate crisis is hurting the New England fishing industry, claims a new report published Monday, with a decline of 16% in fishing jobs in the northeastern U.S. region from 1996 to 2017 and more instability ahead.
University of Delaware researcher Kimberly Oremus’ paper, “Climate variability reduces employment in New England fisheries,” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“This is an important signal to incorporate into the fisheries management process,” Oremus told Science X. “We need to figure out what climate is doing to fisheries in order to cope with it.”