Summer Heat Waves and Low Oxygen Prove Deadly for Bay Scallops as a New York Fishery Collapses
A new study by Stony Brook University researchers published in Global Change Biology demonstrates that warming waters and heat waves have contributed to the loss of an economically and culturally important fishery, the production of bay scallops. As climate change intensifies, heat waves are becoming more and more common across the globe. In the face of such repeated events, animals will acclimate, migrate, or perish.
Since 2019, consecutive summer mass die-offs of bay scallops in the Peconic Estuary on...
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