Warming Oceans May Result in Clownfish Decline

[Sea Save Foundation]

Anemones are much like coral, having symbionts living inside them that help them make food and give them their brilliant colors. When seawater temperatures are warmer, anemones can bleach like corals when their symbionts are expelled. This causes the clownfish, that depend on the anemones for shelter, to stop laying eggs. “Scientists suspect that pattern may hold for untold numbers of other fish nurtured by either corals or anemones.”

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