Tiniest Sea Creatures Showing Up in GOA Can Be Biggest Troublemakers
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] - February 28, 2018
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – The smallest sea creatures might be the biggest troublemakers.
Warming Alaska waters are luring all kinds of new creatures – and some of the smallest can potentially be the biggest troublemakers.
In the eastern Gulf of Alaska tiny filter feeders called salps are appearing. The inch-long tubes never stop feeding on phytoplankton, the foundation of the ocean’s food chain.
“Just the fact that they are here is different from the usual ...
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