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Entering into an already heated debate, a recent study on the potential impact of climate change on trout has chilling news for cold-water fisheries.
In a moderate plan for a warming climate drawn up by the researchers, brook trout would lose more than three-quarters of their range in the West in the next 75 years. Brown and cutthroat trout would lose about 50 percent of theirs. Rainbow trout would fare the best, losing a little more than a third of the miles of stream in which they can thrive.
The rest of the article can be read on the New York Times Environment blog here.
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