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Rising ocean acidity bad news for West Coast’s $200 million Dungeness crab fishery

Rising ocean acidity bad news for West Coast’s $200 million Dungeness crab fishery

The findings have unsettling implications for California's most valuable ocean crop.

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Ocean acidification is literally dissolving the shells of dungeness crabs

Ocean acidification is literally dissolving the shells of dungeness crabs

In a recent peer-reviewed, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-funded study published in Science of the Total Environment, populations of our beloved crustacean in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia were found to have shell damaged linked to an increasingly acidic Pacific.

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