SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019Tropical fish spotted in
northern Canada as climate
change crisis escalates
The spotfin butterfly fish is usually found in the Caribbean Sea (Lloyd Bond)
PHOEBE WESTON
SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT
Colourful tropical fish like butterfly fish and scrawled filefish are being spotted in northern Canadian waters
as the climate crisis escalates.
Scuba diver and photographer Lloyd Bond – who has been diving in Nova Scotia for 23 years – has told The
Independent he has seen a dramatic increase in fish whose normal habitat is thousands of miles away.
“Up until eight years ago tropical fish seemed to be extremely rare,” Mr Bond said. “The last couple years
I’ve been spotting them on almost every dive from the end of August to mid to late October. Butterfly fish,
greater amberjacks, rudder fish, yellow tail snapper seem to be in larger numbers.