The local media reported that new species of fish have been spotted in Icelandic waters including mackerel. The reason might be the biosphere in the ocean around Iceland that has been changing considerably in the past few years because of rising temperatures. There is no denying fact that the global warming has affected the North Pole region badly. The ice is melting, atmosphere is changing and this gives birth to some new species of marine creature.
Earlier in Icelandic waters only mackerel was caught that too once in a while. Mackerel was considered to have drifted to Iceland by coincidence. For the past few years the number of mackerel has increased tenfold. The population has swell so much that it can now be used for commercial fishing. Olafur S. Astthorsson, assistant director of the Icelandic Marine Research Institute, explained that a warming period in Icelandic waters began in 1996 causing fish that usually live further south to migrate north.
He further said that some of these changes in the ocean biosphere around Iceland are permanent. He cites an example expecting capelin, which Icelanders have fished for decades, to continue to migrate north until it will vacate Icelandic waters completely. There is another species called monkfish that ahs become more common in Icelandic waters in the past few years, which was rarely caught by local fishermen 20 years ago. Instead of south and west of the Icelandic coast, haddock can now be caught all around the country.
