Beaufort Sea’s fish population at risk due to acidification: study – CBC
Jun 18, 2015
New study shows that acid levels could threaten survival of shelled organisms in Beaufort by 2044
A new study estimates that within two decades, the Beaufort Sea could reach levels so corrosive that many shelled organisms, and even fish and whales — depended on by aboriginal people in the region — could be at risk.
“They are reaching a point where they are crossing a threshold to a point that we are really worried about,” says Jeremy Mathis, an oceanographer at America’s National Oceanic Atmospheric Association and lead author of the study, released this week.
Mathis and a team of scientists ventured into the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas for two month-long expeditions onboard United States Coast Guard Cutter Healy in 2011 and 2012.
