Wondering about wandering whiting: Distribution of North Sea whiting between the 1920s and 2000s

► Influence of fisheries and climate change on whiting distribution in the North Sea. ► No clear shift in latitude and depth, but shift in longitude in the late 1940s-1960s. ► Results are in contrast to recent studies regarding latitude and depth. ► The longitudinal shift could not be related to fisheries or climate change.