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Dungeness crabs threatened by, you guessed it, climate change
2016-05-25 11:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When it comes to American culinary institutions, the Dungeness crabs that are hauled ashore from California to Washington state every winter season are the crustacean equivalents of apple pie. The bountiful crab meat is a holiday staple in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. When crabbing was suspended in the fall by an algae outbreak, journalists flocked to docks to produce lead news stories -- just as they did when crabbing was restricted following a 2007 oil spill. Research published...
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Dungeness crabs, the latest climate casualty
2015-11-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: Like messages in bottles, the evidence of something very wrong in the Pacific Ocean has been mounting all year on Californias shores. Ordinary storms have been whipped into monsters like last weeks Hurricane Patricia. Schools of tropical sunfish have shown up on the Alaskan coast, and red crabs from Baja have carpeted beaches as far north as Monterey County. Now, amid record high water temperatures in the Pacific, a record algal bloom is floating like a heat rash along the West Coast from...
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Red tuna crabs wash up on San Diego beaches by the thousands
2015-06-17 11:57:24| Biotech - Topix.net
Like a scene from a B-movie, hordes of bright red crabs have taken over San Diego's coastline from Ocean Beach to La Jolla. Masses of the small red tuna crabs, or pelagic red crabs, have been washing up along the southern California shoreline for the past couple of weeks, according to local media reports.
Is the tasty blue crab's natural range creeping north?
2015-03-09 22:12:47| Paper - Topix.net
David Johnson was standing in a salt marsh tidal creek north of Boston, Mass., when he scooped up a blue crab, Callinectes sapidus , 80 miles north of its native range. The northern migration of this commercially important species, Johnson says, could be yet another sign of climate change.
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Is the tasty blue crab's natural range creeping north?
2015-03-06 21:34:36| Paper - Topix.net
David Johnson was standing in a salt marsh tidal creek north of Boston, Mass., when he scooped up a blue crab, Callinectes sapidus , 80 miles north of its native range. The northern migration of this commercially important species, Johnson says, could be yet another sign of climate change.
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