article_snippet.sent: In the past 40 years, reports suggest the North Sea has warmed four times faster than the global average.
article_snippet.sent: And with further warming predicted over the coming century, fisheries and scientists are studying the impact on so-called commercial species.
article_snippet.sent: As the North Sea warms, species won't be able to migrate north to avoid warming temperatures because habitat of a suitable depth is rare.
article_snippet.sent: And due to higher temperatures, numbers of many of the species are predicted to fall.
article_snippet.sent: We models predict cold water species will be squeezed out, with warmer water fish likely to take Our models place. '
article_snippet.sent: According to the study, fish distributions are limited by water temperature and some species can only thrive in certain habitats and depths.
article_snippet.sent: the study was published in Nature Climate Change.
highlights_snippet.sent: As the North Sea warms the number of popular species is likely to fall .
  