B.C. has unveiled an action plan to tackle the two greatest climate threats to the ocean, coastal communities and marine ecosystems.
Posted: Jun. 14, 2023 9:29AMB.C. has unveiled an action plan to tackle the two greatest climate threats to the ocean, coastal communities and marine ecosystems on the West Coast.
“It’s really important we start to improve our understanding of what parts of the ocean will be vulnerable,” said Rebecca Martone, executive director of the Ocean Decade Collaborative Center, which helped shape B.C.’s OAH plan.
By 2100, the average acidity of the ocean’s surface is expected to increase by 100 to 150 per cent above levels seen at the start of the Industrial Revolution at the turn of the 19th century. Seafood like Dungeness crab, clams or oysters are important to First Nations’ food security and culture and commercially to fisheries and aquaculture and might be increasingly at risk, Martone said.
The aquaculture industry also helped create the new OAH plan, said Nico Prins, executive director of the BC Shellfish Growers Association. Acidification poses the greatest risk for baby oysters during their larval stage when they just begin to formulate their shells and are on the road to becoming “seed oysters”, which are then shipped to shellfish farms to grow out.
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