Nature World News: Excessive market demand for shrimp, sardines and other short-life fishes is having a greater impact on some fisheries than climate change, according to new research.
Climate change can affect fisheries by warming the seas, affecting chlorophyll production, which fuels phytoplankton, the staple food of both shrimp and sardines.
But a research team led by Ernesto Chávez Ortiz, from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico City, which runs the Interdisciplinary Center of Marine Sciences...