Oyster
US (West and East Coast)
Increasing acidic conditions interfere with the shell formation of young oysters in hatcheries and elsewhere. This finding has clear implications for the oyster farming industry, which is worth $273 million along the West Coast alone. Hatcheries have ameliorated the problem by manipulating water chemistry and continue to supply West Coast farms, but many see the threat as another canary in the coal mine for marine life.[1] In addition, Dermo disease, a plague for oyster populations, has spread northward along the North American east coast, thanks to climate change.[2]
References:
[1] Doney, et al., 2014: Ch. 24: Oceans and Marine Resources. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, J. M. Melillo, Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and G. W. Yohe, Eds., U.S. Global Change Research Program, 562, doi:10.7930/ J0RF5RZW, http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/regions/oceans.[2] David Bushek and Susan E. Ford, “Anthropogenic Impacts on an Oyster Metapopulation: Pathogen Introduction, Climate Change and Responses to Natural Selection,” Elem Sci Anth 4, no. 0 (August 18, 2016): 000119, 1, https://doi.org/10.12952/journal.elementa.000119.
