Coastal and Estuarine Fishes and the Impact of Climate Change

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Port St Johns estuary. Photo: Stock

New research has found that the impact of climate change is having a profound effect on South Africa’s coastal and estuarine fishes. According to the National Biodiversity Assessment (2018), 27% of the 66 species assessed are threatened with extinction. In addition some 265000 waterbirds have been lost from South African estuaries since the 1980s.

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