When he finished school Daragh McGuinness knew he wanted to join a fishing crew but now, at 23, he fears climate change may kill off the industry that has sustained his family for generations.
"It's a massive problem," he told AFP in the pilothouse of the Atlantic Challenge trawler, where he works as a deckhand, docked in the port of Killybegs in northwest Ireland.Soaring temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean over the summer months have raised fears that fish could be pushed to colder waters, heaping pressure on the already struggling industry.
"It would just concern you that you would be pushed further, too far north and then it wouldn't be viable to come back to Killybegs," McGuinness explained.change was having a"dramatic effect" on white fish stocks such as cod which prefer colder waters. Among trends emerging, he added, were more mackerel being caught by the Icelandic fleet, while his members were catching more species like anchovies and sardines, which are typically found in warmer southern waters, prompting"overall concern".
Glenn Nolan, who heads oceanographic and climate services at Ireland's Marine Institute, said the month saw"significant" temperatures, 4-5 degrees in excess of what would be normal off the country's coast in theBoats are now bringing in more fish such as anchovies and sardines, which are usually found in warmer waters.
"The IPCC have already looked at marine heat waves in general and they have high confidence that they can attribute them to manmade climate change," the Galway-based expert said. EU member Ireland saw a 15-percent cut to fishing quotas by 2025 as part of the last-minute trade deal between London and Brussels."The net effect of it is that Ireland is paying 40 percent of the transfer of fish to the UK ."
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