Yellow croaker, a national marine product, may be depleted within decades; National Sun Yat-sen University calls for conservation planning

Assistant Professor Lin Yu-chi of the Institute of Marine Ecology and Conservation at National Sun Yat-sen University found in a study that the economically valuable fish species, totoaba (commonly known as yellow croaker), is highly sensitive to temperature changes caused by climate change and may face the risk of depletion as global warming intensifies. He called for it to be listed as a priority species for conservation and management. The re…