Summer flounder is managed by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, one of three federally mandated councils that operate along the East Coast. But the very makeup of federal fishery-management bodies has stymied greater changes. Some modest changes being considered for next year could reduce North Carolina’s landings to one-fifth of the national total. waters must be “landed,” or brought to shore, in North Carolina, no matter where they were caught. It dictated that about a quarter of all the flounder caught in U.S. government set quotas for summer flounder. Nearly a quarter-century ago, when the fishermen of Wanchese were riding high, the U.S. Pushed out of their traditional habitats by the dramatically rising ocean temperatures and other fallout from climate change, summer flounder are part of a global disruption of marine species that threatens livelihoods, cultures and the delicate balance of the oceans themselves. But this great migration is not just off the coast of America. In recent years, at least 85 percent of the nearly 70 federally tracked species there had shifted north or deeper, or both, when compared to the norm over the past half-century, according to the Reuters analysis of U.S. The reporting has come to a disturbing conclusion: Marine life is facing an epic dislocation. Reuters has spent more than a year scouring decades of maritime temperature readings, fishery records and other little-used data to create a portrait of the planet’s hidden climate disruption – in the rarely explored depths of the seas that cover more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface.
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