Ocean Acidification

Ocean Acidification Events & News

Filed under: Ocean Acidification, Projects 

EVENTS
Upcoming conference: The Oceans in a High-CO2 World, Sept 24-27, 2012, Monterey CA
http://www.ocean-acidification.net

NEWS & REPORTS
Seafood producers tackle ocean acidification at annual Summit
FIS.com, February 21, 2011
Click here to find out more

 

Click here for a great story on ocean acidification from KUOW

Pioneering Education on Ocean Acidification

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Since 2007 NFCC has been a pioneer in informing and preparing the seafood industry, coastal communities, and policy makers to respond effectively to ocean acidification.

 

Working closely with the Sustainable Fisheries partnership’s Global Ocean Health program http://www.sustainablefish.org/global-programs/global-ocean-health, NFCC has co-hosted workshops for fishermen and seafood companies, published articles in the fisheries trade press, supported production of educational videos, and helped to assemble an informed and capable group of stakeholders and scientists to respond to the causes and consequences of this major change in ocean chemistry.

 

Caused primarily by industrial society’s vast waste stream of carbon dioxide (CO2), ocean acidification has already increased acidity of the world’s surface oceans by an estimated 30% (as measured by increase in hydrogen ion concentration) since the Industrial Revolution. In many of the world’s most productive marine and estuarine waters, this change has been even more dramatic. Acidification due to CO2 compounds chemical changes induced by runoff of human-released nutrients and resulting eutrophication, freshening of surface ocean waters, and other processes. The consequences for growth, survival, and physiological functions of many shellfish are particularly serious; fish, plankton, and corals are also affected.

 

Stay tuned for additional information here and at SFP’s website above.

 

Videos on ocean acidification

                                                                                                                                        

NFCC has supported production of videos about ocean acidification featuring scientists and fishermen speaking about the risks it poses for families, jobs, businesses, and marine life.

 

We worked with the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) and several collaborating organizations to assemble the funds, the teams, and the people interviewed in these videos. Special thanks to aerial artist John Quigley of Spectral Q Productions, videographers Leslie Morava and Mark Brinster, Alaska aerial videographer Daniel Zatz, on-the docks organizer Alan Parks, the Alaska Marine Conservation Council, and the hundreds of Alaska fishermen and mariners who poured their energy into the SOS Acid Ocean event in 2009, generating several of the images and interviews shown below.

 

SOS Acid Ocean and interviews with fishermen

by John Quigley, Leslie Morava, Daniel Zatz, Mark Brinster

 

Ocean Acidification: perspective from Dr. Mark Green, oceanographer and oyster grower in Maine

Produced by Leslie Morava, supported by SFP and NFCC

 

The Making of the SOS Acid Ocean Event

by John Quigley, Leslie Morava, Daniel Zatz, Mark Brinster