How global warming affects our seafood and marine life

Prof Phang, director of IOES, collecting seaweed samples in Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan, for research purposes. Photos: IOES

Climate change has been portrayed as the distant concern of activists in developed countries which can “afford” to be bothered about such “greenie” issues. But the bad news is: global warming is already affecting us in Malaysia too. For one, it may hit the seafood that many of us love feasting on.

We are lucky that seafood is still relatively affordable and easy to find. But this may not continue, due to something commonly known as the Red Tide, or what scientists would prefer to call harmful algal blooms (HABs).