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Warming Waters Confuse and Threaten Many Shellfish – Technology Networks

Ocean warming is paradoxically driving bottom-dwelling invertebrates – including sea scallops, blue mussels, surfclams and quahogs that are valuable to the shellfish industry – into warmer waters and threatening their survival.

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Ocean warming is paradoxically driving bottom-dwelling invertebrates including sea scallops, blue mussels, surfclams and quahogs that are valuable to the shellfish industry into warmer waters and threatening their survival, a Rutgers-led study shows.
In a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers identify a cause for the wrong-way species migrations: warming-induced changes to their spawning times, resulting in the earlier release of larvae that would then be pushed …

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