Wow! Think of the savings on vinegar if the seas actually were becoming acidic! They aren’t though and while the fillets may change with varying ocean currents the UK’s ubiquitous fish & chips will still be fish and chips.
The seas around Britain are starting to teem with fish species once deemed exotic as climate change raises water temperatures, forcing the former dominant occupants to flee northward toward the Arctic and opening the way for those from the hotter south, according to marine and fisheries scientists.
Such is the extent of the migration already observed, which is expected to grow in coming decades and could even force a change in the country’s fish menus. Once-local species are moving farther afield and therefore becoming more expensive to catch, while formerly foreign ones become plentiful locally and therefore presumably cheaper and easier to harvest.
“People have started calling the North Sea the crucible of climate change. It has warmed by about a degree Celsius over the last 50 to 100 years, which is something like six times faster than pretty much any marine area around the world,” John Pinnegar, program director of the Marine Climate Change Centre at the government’s Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, told ClimateWire.
“…the UK’s ubiquitous fish & chips will still be fish and chips.”
Now if only they knew how to cook it. British fish & chips is terrible! If you want good fish & chips, you come to the USA. We won’t serve you any of that hideous blood sausage either.