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oysters started dying by the billion along the northern coast in 2005 they have been struggling ever since scientists cautiously linked the deaths to pluming ocean ph in 2008 and 2009 low ph means the water is more acidic but few outside the west coasts 110 million industry believe it

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the oyster industry pleaded the congress which supplied money for new equipment over several years the hatcheries tested their water using high tech ph sensors when the ph was low baby oysters died within two days by drawing water only when ph was normal shellfish production got back on track.

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acidification is a term used to describe significant changes to the chemistry of the ocean it occurs when carbon dioxide gas is absorbed by the ocean and reacts with seawater to produce acid.

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over the next 10 years the world will have to make significant progress tackling this problem or it will get worse.

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https://youtu.be/x7MpI9dZIjk

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feely and a team from Oregon state finally showed with certainty that it was acidification had caused the problem the nisbits now had there own hatchery which drew water from a warm, underground, saltwater aquifer when the tiny oysters raised there are big enough to produce shells they are mailed back   to Washington and planted in willapa bay.

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oysters were dying at Oregon whisky creek hatchery which draws water directly from the pacific ocean the next year it stuck a Taylor shellfish hatchery outside Quilcene which get its water from hood canal owners initially suspected bacteria but shellfish died even when it wasn't present

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when no young oysters survived in willapa bay at all, farmers blamed the luck of nature after two more year with essentially no new oysters being born panic set in then things got worse

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the nisbets bought ten acres of tideland near bay center and built their business over the years one market at a time.

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dick feely was a government scientist when he noticed co2 levels rising hundreds of feet down and in about 30 to 50 years it will reach the surface killing all oysters

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carbon dioxide from burning gasoline and oil turns Washington coast deadly

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carbon dioxide from burning gasoline and oil turns Washington coast deadly

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young oysters stop growing and the larvae died because some of the ocean water got sucked into the Oregon hatchery

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oysters started dying by the billions because of the low ph levels in the water