The eastern Pacific, from the Bering Sea to northern California, has been one of the world’s last remaining great fisheries. It’s a band of coastal ocean famous for its abundant salmon, cod, halibut and tuna but it’s also known for its bounty of crab of several varieties plus shellfish including
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The Disaffected Lib: Another Climate Change Calamity. This One is Personal.
Island Scallops is on the ropes. The company, which produces an astonishingly-good hybrid scallop, has just lost three years’ production to ocean acidification. As we’ve pumped ever more CO2 into the atmosphere, our oceans have absorbed increasing amounts of it, in turn acidifying. The more acidic water attacks the calcium in
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