TOMALES BAY, Calif. — Global warming isn't the only consequence of climate change. Carbon in the atmosphere is falling into the oceans, increasing acid levels, and impacting shellfish. Oysters are in the crosshairs of this future crisis.
Around the Bay Area, the name Tomales Bay is closely associated with eating oysters. But there is one type of oyster they will not be eating on the beach there — the native Olympia oyster has all but disappeared.
If you want to find Olympias in abundance, look up Eric Sanford, Ph. D., at the Bodega Marine Lab. He has been raising them to study the effects of that global warming-bookend crisis also known as ocean acidification.
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