The global ocean has soaked up 1/3 of human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions since the start of the Industrial Era. This fact alone has led to increasing the CO2 and acidity of seawater across the world. Increasing seawater acidity reduces available carbonate, the building blocks used by shellfish to grow their shells. That means: barnacles, crab, crawfish, krill, lobster and shrimp are having trouble growing their shells because of increasing the CO2 and acidity in the oceans.
NOAA has introduced us to a new tool that helps oyster growers prepare for the changing ocean chemistry. For generations fisherman/women have depended upon the fruits of the ocean and their labor, but because of a rapidly changing ocean chemistry, that livelihood may be compromised. Modern technology is being used to combat human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in our oceans.
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