Fact Alert – the following is based on science, not opinion, so proceed at your own intellectual peril!

Four recent studies have found climate change has impacted both cold and warm water species. The American Fisheries Society found this news so important that it devoted the latest issue of its magazine Fisheries to it.

It comes as no surprise though, that some of the first responders to warming will be cold-blooded species but the study also found:

• Climate change may be causing earlier migration timing …
• Shifts in species’ ranges are already changing the kinds of fish in a specific water body…
• Droughts are forecasted to increase in frequency and severity in many parts of North America… systems.

Read about the significant findings of these studies in a recent Field & Stream article.