Posted on 07/11/2021 11:30:19 AM PDT by Libloather
(CNN) - The devastating heat wave that ravaged British Columbia last week is being blamed for a massive die-off of mussels, clams and other marine animals that live on the beaches of Western Canada.
Christopher Harley, a professor in the zoology department at The University of British Columbia, found countless dead mussels popped open and rotting in their shells on Sunday at Kitsilano Beach, which is a few blocks away from his Vancouver home.
Harley studies the effects of climate change on the ecology of rocky shores where clams, mussels and sea stars live, so he wanted to see how the intertidal invertebrates were faring in the record heat wave that hit the area on June 26-28.
Christopher Harley estimates that a billion mussels, clams and other animals may have died from the heat.
"I could smell that beach before I got to it, because there was already a lot of dead animals from the previous day, which was not the hottest of three," he said. "I started having a look around just on my local beach and thought, 'Oh, this, this can't be good.'"
The next day, Harley and one of his students went to Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver, which he has been visiting for more than 12 years.
"It was a catastrophe over there," he said. "There's a really extensive mussel bed that coats the shore and most of those animals had died."
Unprecedented heat
Mussels attach themselves to rocks and other surfaces and are used to being exposed to the air and sunlight during low tide, Harley said, but they generally can't survive temperatures over 100 degrees for very long.
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I forgot to mention that there was record cold in a huge region of southwestern South America. There is a map in the video that shows all of the hot and cold regions on Earth for the aforementioned time period.
I'm thinking marinara, myself.
Facts and logic, you racist, homotdansphobe?/sarc😂
Sounds good if I could only find some to fry...:(
I grew up on LI. I find people who did not spend time near the shore do not like seafood, period.
Doesn’t address the question of which causes which.
there’s seafood processors in crisfield maryland that may ship them to you...
Growing up in Buffalo, one of the joys of summer were all the outside clam booths. Almost every bar had them. Fresh clams, about $1 a dozen. Corn on the cob.
I’m not an shellfish kind of guy, but lemon and cocktail sauce does sound appropriate for the occasion.
I thought Obama had this problem solved when he had NASAs mission include Mussel Outreach
Thanks I will check them out but I am very price conscious. last time I paid $5 ea I thought that was too high.
WE’RE DOOMED!!! Only a massive powerful government and huge taxes can save us now.
Sounds delicious.
White privilege causes all of it.
I thought Algore said 2005; was the goal post moved - again?
No, the correct phrase is climate change
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