The fish are moving, and so is an entire industry.<\/p>\n
Aboard the Stanley K and the Oracle, two 58-foot vessels, Buck Laukitis and his crews chase halibut across the Bering Sea worth $5 a pound at the docks. As sea temperatures rise and Arctic ice retreats<\/a>, the fish appear to be avoiding warming waters, migrating northward where they cost more to reach, federal fisheries biologists say.<\/p>\n Twice this past fall, the Oracle sailed 800 miles north from the seaport of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, before finding the halibut that a decade ago lived several hundred miles closer to home. Each voyage took twice as long and yielded half as many fish.<\/p>\n \u201cIt keeps me up at night,\u201d he says. \u201cI woke up at three in the morning. I couldn\u2019t sleep thinking about where the fish are going.\u201d<\/p>\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I woke up at three in the morning,” says an Alaska fisherman dealing with warming seas. “I couldn\u2019t sleep thinking about where the fish are going.” https:\/\/t.co\/SLAIEJwnmu<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n