Ireland's fishing industry under threat as fish move north due to climate change

Global warming is also drawing fish more common in warmer Mediterranean waters, like bluefin tuna, towards Ireland’s shores, but current EU fish quotas do not allow Irish fishers to catch quantities of these species

'Climate change is having a negative impact on the fish stocks that are available to us. There are species entering our waters now that we don't have a quota for. For example, bluefin tuna, a very valuable stock.'

As wildfires rage across Europe, climate change is also heating waters so rapidly that fish once plentiful off Ireland's coast have moved north, seriously threatening Ireland’s already precarious fishing industry.

Climate change is also drawing fish more common in warmer Mediterranean waters, like bluefin tuna, towards Ireland’s shores.