A NOAA-led research team has found the first evidence that acidity of continental shelf waters off the West Coast is dissolving the shells of tiny free-swimming marine snails, called pteropods, which provide food for pink salmon, mackerel and herring, according to a new paper http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1785/20140123
published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
