Opinion: Warming Ocean’s Effect on East Coast Shellfish Should be a Warning to Us
There is something happening out there.
The lobsters have almost disappeared from southern New England waters.
And now we have confirmation that warmer waters have caused a decline in the numbers of all kinds of shellfish up and down the East Coast.
Clyde MacKenzie, a NOAA researcher, and Mitchell Tarnowski, a biologist for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, studied the decline of four commercially important shellfish from North Carolina to Maine: eastern oysters, northern quahogs, softshell clams and northern bay scallops ...
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