For Immediate Release: November 27, 2012 OLYMPIA – Gov. Chris Gregoire signed an executive order today underscoring the importance of recommendations from her Blue Ribbon Panel on Ocean Acidification to address the growing problem of ocean acidification in Washington, which threatens the state’s shellfish resources and its $270 million shellfish
Month: November 2012
Washington State Targets Pollutants that Lead to Ocean Acidification
Posted on Science Insider by David Malakoff on 27 November 2012 Sensitive. Washington shellfish growers say ocean acidification threatens their lucrative industry, which is built on species such as this Pacific oyster. Credit: Photo courtesy of Daniel Bennett/Blue Ribbon Commission on Ocean Acidification In the first state-level action of
Washington State Declares War on Ocean Acidificatio
Posted on Scientific American: 27 Nov 2012 — By Virginia Gewin and Nature magazine — The state, a leading U.S. producer of farmed shellfish, has launched a $3.3-million, science-based plan to address this growing problem for the region and the globe As leading producer of farmed shellfish in the US,
Rising ocean acidity off Washington state threatens shellfish, panel says
Posted on OregonLive: 27 Nov 2012 — By The Associated Press Dan Driscoll, owner of Oysterville Sea Farms, checks on the oysters in Willapa Bay. Long Beach Peninsula, in Washington’s Southwest corner. Rising ocean acidity threatens shellfish such as oysters–Beth Nakamura, The Oregonian SEATTLE — Rising acidity levels in
State panel calls for stronger action to combat ocean acidification
Posted on Seattle Times: 27 Nov 2012 — By Craig Welsh — A panel appointed by Gov. Chris Gregoire made dozens of recommendations for tackling the rising acidity in Northwest marine waters, which already has upended the West Coast’s multimillion-dollar shellfish industry and threatens to wreak havoc on the region’s