Ocean fish can weather marine heatwaves with no major impact on their numbers, a study showed Wednesday, a rare flash of good news following a summer of record-breaking temperatures. Weather monitors reported record-warm sea-surface temperatures in July –- but the study of thousands of deeper fishery samples from 1993 to 2019 found that ocean heatwaves generally spared fisheries.

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