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Éva Plagányi, Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO

Climate change is causing fish to move to cooler water. But what if their escape route is blocked?

Rich Pillans/CSIRO

Around the world, ocean warming is causing fish to move polewards in search of cooler water.

But what if you’re a tiny prawn, barramundi or rare sawfish in a northern Australian gulf and your exit southwards is blocked by land? To date, there’s been a global gap in understanding how shallow tropical gulfs and bays are responding to climate change.

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