Carbon Dioxide Is 'Driving Fish Crazy'

Resource: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120120184233.htm Summary: Researchers have found that there is more carbon dioxide going into salt water where all the fish live. They realized that this is making the fish have a hard time hearing, smelling and unable to protect themselves against preditors. These people tested this with baby coral fish, they saw how more carbon dioxide affected their nervous system, which is one of the main things that help them survive. Later they found that more carbon dioxide can also affect their brains which causes fish to act differently and can be a threat to sea life. Then they started testing clown fish and saw that when a preditor was around the babies suffered much more then their parents. Also the babies have a hard time smelling which means that they can't find a reef to live in and they cant detect when a preditor is coming. Another thing that was affected was the ability for the fish to turn right or left which also makes it easy for them to be eaten by preditors. Critique: This article is very interesting i suggest for people that like to know about sea life to read this. Impact: The fact that fished are having such a hard time with living because of to much carbon dioxide is a huge impact on sea life. If there is a way to help these fish then that needs to happen as soon as possible because a lot of bad things could happen if all fish died because they cant protect themselves against preditors.