The combined impacts of climate change and overfishing mean Asia’s fisheries are at risk of collapse in the coming decades, according to new research released today. The report Sink or Swim: The future of fisheries in the East and South China Sea shows that growing demand for fish-based feed in the aquaculture industry is an emerging driver of fisheries overexploitation in the East and South China Seas. Under a severe climate change trajectory, which indicates a 2˚C warming by 2050, the South China Sea is likely to experience significant declines in key commercial fish and invertebrate species, placing many regional fishing economies at risk of devastating failure.

Asia's marine fisheries at risk of collapse, leading scientist warm. (2022, January 22-23). Daily Guardian, pp. 10, 11.