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Ocean acidification will make it hard for mussels to hang on experiments suggest

2016-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CBC.ca: For a seafood lover, the strong, stretchy threads that mussels use to cling to rocks are a nuisance to be discarded. But for the mussel, they're a lifeline necessary to cling to its home and new research shows they're vulnerable to the climate change double-whammy of warmer and more acidic waters. Penn Cove mussel farmer A mussel farmer at Penn Cove Shellfish on Whidbey Island in Washington State shows a rope with mussels growing on it, along with algae. (Emily Carrington) "It is concerning,"...

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