Alaskans Reel From the Loss of National Science Foundation Ocean-Monitoring Instruments
via alaskaseafood.org
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In the nation’s fastest-warming state with a multi-billion-dollar fishing industry and storm-threatened coastal communities, scientists say the federal government’s decommission of a deepwater sensor system is ill-timed and wrong-headed. By Paula Dobbyn The upcoming loss of a deep-ocean monitoring system is triggering deep anxiety in Alaska, the nation’s top fish-producing state, where temperatures are warming […]