“Well there certainly has been changes, there’s definitely climate change going on; there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence, and a lot of data that’s not really been collected, or fragments of data here and there; there’s a lot more work that could be done on pulling things together to build up the picture.

But certainly from my own experience, I did my PhD on monkfish, at the time that I was doing that, you were never seeing more than 3-5%, now you’re getting higher percentages so it would suggest there has been a shift in black-bellied ones moving north

...There’s been a lot of changes in the fishing industry; you never used to get hake here... there’s a massive amount of cod around here, huge aggregations of them. ...All the evidence is pointing towards a northwards migration of cod that is probably caused by a change in the temperature.

...They’re going further north. It might be caused by changes to plankton, to their overall food web; one wee change over here can have a huge knock-on effect.

…into the Norwegian Sea. …Some fishing boats are having to go way way north; it’s certainly a search to find that fish.

…The weather has been more extreme, and so there will be knock-on effects.”