Climate change is affecting biodiversity and overall system functioning of
all the worlds’ oceans. Over the past decades, significant amount of evidence has
accumulated which allow us to decipher its effects on the Adriatic Sea. Investigations
of fish communities in its eastern part showed us that it has undergone a significant
biodiversity changes which are dominated by the influx of alien fishes, distributional
shifts of native fishes and community-level changes of native populations of fishes.
These changes have profound influence on fishery and aquaculture of the eastern
Adriatic Sea. Beside current state, potential future scenarios which will affect its fish
and fisheries are reviewed.
Keywords: Exotic fishes, Fisheries, Lessepsian, Northward spreading,
Thermophilic.
