Squid Disappeared in East Sea in Arctic?!... "Climate Crisis Reality"

[Anchor]
As the seawater warmed due to climate change, it became difficult to find squid in the East Sea.

But a squid was found in the Arctic.

Reporter Jang Ah-young reports on the climate crisis captured in the Arctic by Araon, Korea's icebreaking research ship.

[Reporter]
Squid began to be difficult to catch in the East Sea as the sea water temperature rose due to global warming.


It was called 'gold squid' because it was precious, but recently, there was even a word 'squid' that there was no such thing.

[Fisherman (December last year): Not a squid comes out. There's not a single one.]

Squid heading north and north out of the warm East Sea.

It traveled through Siberia to the Arctic Ocean.

Following our Araon's discovery of squid at 76 degrees north latitude last year, several were caught at 77 degrees north latitude this year.

It's not just squid adults.

We even collected the larvae that were not fully grown yet.

It is evidence that the swarm of squid was not temporarily washed up on the ocean currents, but that it formed habitats including spawning sites in the Arctic.

The Araon research team, which has sailed to the Arctic every year since 2009, says that this experience of realizing the climate crisis is increasing.

Squid is not the only one who has moved habitat due to rising water temperatures.

[Yang Eun-jin / Senior Researcher for Arctic Ocean Route 1 at Polar Research Institute] Most of the time, there were missing cases. A lot of snow crabs are caught on the northern coast of the Bering Sea, and they were found much higher than that. I think the Arctic Ocean could be the biggest catch of seafood....]

The research team said sea ice, which interfered with the collection of observation equipment every year, has also decreased significantly.

There are also terrible studies showing that if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced, all Arctic sea ice will die out in the 2030s.

I'm YTN's Jang Ayoung.