'The next great casualty of climate change' could be global fishing stocks

— another potential catastrophe has come into view: depleted oxygen levels in the world's oceans and lakes that threaten marine life. As ocean and atmospheric scientists focus on climate, we believe that oceanic oxygen levels are the next big casualty of global warming

In part due to the effects of rising global temperatures, growing portions of the oceans have lost "10-40 percent of their oxygen," and that figure is forecast to continue growing due to climate change. this year in states like Florida, California, Oregon, Montana, Louisiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Washington, Idaho, Delaware and Minnesota. While climate change is not the only cause for the fish kills, it is, researchers say, a contributing factor.

Thousands of dead fish float in the Boca Ciega Bay located near the mouth of Madeira Beach in Florida in July.

And when fish stocks die, so do all the larger marine animals that feed on them: whales, dolphins, seals, sharks, sea birds, etc. Chain reaction.

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