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Fishing communities at risk

With climate change, marine species are on the move and changing in abundance. Now, research shows that the ecological impacts of climate change will differentially affect fishing communities, even within the same region.

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Ban, N.C. Fishing communities at risk. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 501–502 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0506-9

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