Climate change pulls warm-water fish north: experts

LONDON (AFP) - A warm-water Atlantic triple fin fish has for the first time been caught off the coast of Britain, in another sign of species migrating north as global temperatures rise, experts have said.

The triple fin fish is usually found off the coasts of Africa, South America and the Mediterranean, but was caught by fisherman Michael Roberts in the Bristol Channel, where he was hoping to catch salmon and sea trout, they said Tuesday.

The two-feet (0.6 meter) long mature adult was handed in to the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, where expert Julian Carter said that its discovery was another indication of the warming of British waters.

He was using a stake net off the shore at Peterstone, between Cardiff and Newport on the south Wales coast.

"It is the first record of such a fish in UK (United Kingdom) waters," Carter said. "It is a very warm water fish."