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By 2050, the size of fish could shrink by 10 - 20 per cent, Dr William Cheung, a marine ecologist at the University of British Columbia, Canada, forecast.Some might say the shrinking Haddock might have more to do with over-fishing.
Dr Cheung, who gave a keynote address at the 50th Anniversary Symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles at Exeter University this week, said some fish in the North Sea, including haddock, were already getting smaller.
He predicted the trend would continue with common species such as cod shrinking by up to a fifth within our lifetime.Get ready for "child's portions" of fish and chips. No really, that's the headline, not the punchline.