THIS IS A SERVICE OF A DIGITAL NEWS PROVIDER Monday October 19, 2009 Home News by Topic News by State Editor's Picks Enter your search text here. OK About EIN Services Publications Advertise Tropical Regions to be Hardest Hit by Fisheries Shifts Caused by Climate Change October 8, 2009 VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Major shifts in fisheries distribution due to climate change will affect food security in tropical regions most adversely, according to a study led by the Sea Around Us Project at The University of British Columbia. In the first major study to examine the effects of climate change on ocean fisheries, a team of researchers from UBC and Princeton University finds that climate change will produce major shifts in productivity of the world's fisheries, affecting ocean food supply throughout the world. The study is Ads by Google Pictures of the Day published today in the journal Global Change Biology. 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