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El Niño: Warming seas to shrink fish haul, drive marine life away, says DOST chief

Fishing communities across the Philippines face dwindling hauls and disappearing marine life as El Niño-driven ocean warming disrupts the underwater food chain that fish depend on, the country’s top science official warned Saturday. DOST Secretary Renato Solidum Jr. said warmer seas suppress the natural upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water from the ocean floor—starving shallow coastal waters of the food supply that sustains…

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