NOAA says Southeast and Southwest Alaska communities most at risk from Ocean Acidification
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SCOM] July 29, 2014
A new collaborative NOAA arctic research program has published its first paper, on the economic impact of Ocean Accidification on Alaska Communities. The paper, to be published in Progress in Oceanography, was done by scientists from the University of Alaska, NOAA's Pacific Marine lab in Seattle, and from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Ocean acidification is driving changes in waters vital to Alaska's valuable commercial fisheries and subsistence way of life with many of Alaska's nutritionally and economically valuable marine fisheries located in waters that are already experiencing ocean acidification, and that will see more in the near future.
Communities in southeast and southwest Alaska face the highest risk from ocean acidification...
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