Ocean study on disappearing species due to warmer waters not surprising

Being a modest man, marine expert Kevin Flannery wouldn’t claim to be among the first people to notice the effects of climate change.

But, as far back as the early 1980s, he was identifying strange and often exotic fish caught off our south-west coast by fishermen from his native Dingle, Co Kerry, and West Cork. These creatures of the deep were coming from waters off Spain, Portugal, Africa, the Azores and the Gulf of Mexico.