Pacific Nations Are Bracing To Lose Tons Of Tuna From Their Waters

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Leaders in the Pacific are working on a new warning system to better predict how climate change will affect the future of tuna, and they're not worried about volcanic eruptions or hurricanes.

Instead, they're hoping the $70 million plan will help them negotiate better compensation with foreign fishing fleets that pay to access their waters, reports the Los Angeles Times.

About 20% of the tuna that swim through the waters of at least 10 Central and Western Pacific nations, such as the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands, and Kiribati, are expected to move further east as climate change alters ocean weather patterns, meaning the countries could collectively lose $90 million in fishing access fees over the next 30 years, reports the Pacific Community, a regional coalition of governments.

"If the world is prepared to act in other aspects of climate change there's no reason why the world shouldn't act on those tuna projections as well,'' says a senior director at Conservation International, which is helping the coalition develop its warning system.

"We want them to have the best science."

Researchers will analyze tissue samples from fishing vessels that cover a massive expanse of ocean.

Their goal would be to better understand the boundaries that separate the species, plus how they would behave under different climate scenarios and how that

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