February 9, 2009: A report recently released by the WorldFish Center suggests that Africa’s fisheries may have a difficult time coping with climate change.  A news story presented by E & E Publishing quotes Dr. Rashid Sumaila of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit saying:

“Recently, there has been a big spike of interest in climate change and fisheries among NGOs, governments and other organizations,” said Sumaila, who has worked on fisheries projects in Europe, Asia and Africa. “The fishing community was quite slow getting to this stage, but now, my God.”

View an archived PDF version of the news story here.