New effort shines a spotlight on ocean acidification in Alaska

Bob Foy, director of the NOAA lab in Kodiak, holds up king crab, a species expected to be impacted by ocean acidification. (Photo courtesy NOAA’s Fisheries Science Center)
Climate change may get all the attention, but it has a less-talked-about but no less troubling twin: ocean acidification.
A growing chorus of Alaskans, from shellfish growers to fishermen, are fretting about the potential impacts to the state’s waters. Now a new collaboration is aiming to bring ocean acidifica