Dissolving Pteropods in North Pacific bad news for pink salmon (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM May 2, 2014
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Pink salmon diets take a direct hit. More after this –
Argue all you want about climate change – even a Toys R Us chemistry set will prove that the oceans are more acidic. Recent reports cited dissolving oyster larvae that is devastating West Coast shellfish growers.
Now, a federal study reveals its first signs on how corrosive oceans are affecting sea life – and it points to big trouble for pink salmon.
NOAA announced this week the first evidence that the high acid content in the Pacific Ocean is dissolving the shells of tiny free-swimming snails called pteropods.
You might say, who cares about a pteropods? Well, it happens to be a primary food source for juvenile pink salmon...
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