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Eyeing lobster impact, Maine committee urges ocean acidification action
2014-12-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Herald: Maine should increase research and monitoring into how rising acidity levels in oceans could harm the state`s valuable commercial fisheries while taking additional steps to reduce local pollution that can affect water chemistry. Those are two major recommendations of a state commission charged with assessing the potential effects of ocean acidification on lobster, clams and other shellfish. The Legislature created the commission this year in response to concerns that, as atmospheric carbon dioxide...
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