Warming oceans have decimated marine parasites—but that's not a good thing
Published Date: 1/9/2023
Source: phys.org
More than a century of preserved fish specimens offer a rare glimpse into long-term trends in parasite populations. New research from the University of Washington shows that fish parasites plummeted from 1880 to 2019, a 140-year stretch when Puget Sound—their habitat and the second largest estuary in the mainland U.S.—warmed significantly.