4/11 Seattle Times
Lab puts Puget Sound sea life to an acid test
By Craig Welch
Seattle Times environment reporter
The baby crabs look like lint specs swirling in glass jars. The 3-day-old geoducks are too small to even see.
But the shellfish being reared in this cramped government laboratory near the Montlake Cut will play a central role in predicting the future of sea life in Puget Sound.
Biologists at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center are doing some of the most sophisticated work anywhere to see how the marine world responds to a major side effect of fossil-fuel emissions: increasingly corrosive seas.
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