What’s the cost (in fish) between 1.5 and 3 degrees of warming?

Now, researchers have quantified these benefits, calculating just how much fish stocks, fishers, and seafood consumers worldwide would gain from meeting the climate benchmarks set out in the Paris Agreement. They found that if climate change is limited to 1.5 °C, the biomass of the top revenue-generating fish species will be on average 6.5% higher than it would be with 3.5 °C of warming. Extrapolating from the top revenue-generating fish species to the total global seafood catch, the researchers estimate that meeting the Paris Agreement benchmark “could protect a total of 9.5 million metric tons of catch annually,” they write.

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