An innovative use of catch statistics shows that climate change has already influenced the composition of species in fisheries around the world, and thereby the fish that we eat. See Letter p.365
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Payne, M. Climate change at the dinner table. Nature 497, 320–321 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/497320a
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