New Research on How Ocean Acidity Harms Salmon Raises Red Flags for Alaskans
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Anchorage Daily News] by Jerry McCune - January 3, 2018
Fishing families and businesses across Alaska are veterans at keeping an eye out for change — day-to-day and season-to-season. The largest single employer in the state of Alaska, and a food source for millions, the successes of Alaskan seafood harvests rise and fall with a dynamic marine food web. New research is shedding light on a big change within that system — ocean acidification — and Alaska's salmon fishermen are watching closely.
Researchers from NOAA and the University of Washington have found that wild salmon runs may be affected by rising ocean acidity — a well documented global trend that is particularly pronounced in the cold-water, carbon-rich waters off Alaska's vast ...
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