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Escalating emissions also result in higher levels of carbon dioxide being dissolved in the sea, lowering its pH level. The warmer and more acidic water reduces the concentration of carbonate, a compound necessary for shellfish to create their shells.
For Ung Bun, a 39-year-old fisherman from Cambodia's southern Kep province, the days when he would come home with plentiful catches of flower crabs appear to be long gone. Ung Bun dropped the crab - a male that was too small - back into the sea. He later took three gravid crabs - females laden with eggs - out of a bucket and released them back into the sea.
STORY: Cambodia's crab fishermen are struggling with a warming sea. -September 15, 2023 at 05:39 pm EDT - MarketScreener