CANADA....SALMON 🐟 BEING REPLACED BY SQUIDS IN VANCOUVER MENUS?....WELL ALL FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: Vancouver seafood lovers may notice more squid and less sockeye salmon on local menus in the near future because of climate change. A new study out of the University of British Columbia and published in Environmental Biology of Fishes shows research looking at 362 local restaurant menus from four time periods between 1880 and 2021. The study suggests warming water temperatures are already impacting what seafood restaurants serve. Findings indicate that the seas around Vancouver were warming during the studied time periods, so fish species that prefer warmer waters dominated there. It’s likely that they were more available to catch for sale, and so local seafood restaurants offered more of these types of fish." Humboldt SQUIDS, for example, is becoming more common in local restaurants, since the species has reached further north amid rising temperatures. Sardines are also expected to become more abundant with warmer water. "Humboldt squid is not something that we see in restaurant menus at all before the 1990s but we see it is much more common now, and sardine, which has historically disappeared in seafood menu, may return in the future," Meanwhile, researchers say sockeye SALMON isn't doing so well in B.C., which means it will be less available in the near future.