{"id":634604,"date":"2026-04-28T17:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:48:13","slug":"tropical-fish-species-are-showing-up-on-canadas-east-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634604\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical fish species are showing up on Canada’s East Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOne such example of a seahorse spotted on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. (Hunter Stevens\/provided)<\/p>\n

Worm says tropical species like seahorses, cornetfish, butterflyfish, and amberjacks often arrive passively with Gulf Stream eddies or other warm water currents as larvae or juveniles, and then it takes them some time to grow before becoming noticeable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The winter typically kills them off if they\u2019re not large enough to swim to warmer waters, though their paths haven\u2019t specifically been tracked, say experts. Typically they just disappear once the water gets below a certain temperature, and it\u2019s likely they just die.<\/p>\n

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\nShort Bigeye fish spotted in the Atlantic waters off the coast of Nova Scotia. (Hunter Stevens\/provided)<\/p>\n

Another reason we could be seeing tropical species closer to home is hurricanes. Hurricanes can push a pulse of warm water into the Atlantic region and cause an influx of tropical fish in the immediate aftermath.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen it diving myself,\u201d confirmed Worm. \u201cThe water\u2019s really warm, like 21 degrees C maybe, and all of a sudden, you\u2019re in a fish bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One such example of a seahorse spotted on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. (Hunter Stevens\/provided) Worm says…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,2848,6093,295,93644,907,66],"class_list":["post-634604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-impacts","tag-nova-scotia","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}