Pacific Coast Fishermen Assoc. sue 30 fossil fuel companies -- ruining crab fisheries.

[Grasswire2]

Crab fishing on the West Coast has become so threatened by warming oceans that a coalition of commercial fishers has now joined the climate litigation fray with a lawsuit filed Wednesday to hold 30 fossil fuel companies accountable for losses caused by climate change.

The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court by the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, seeks damages on behalf of crab fishers, their businesses and families, and local communities in California and Oregon.

It describes losses caused by the closing of crab fishing waters over the past four years because of algae blooms in the warming Pacific waters, and warns that these closures will keep happening as warming continues.

"These changes threaten both the productivity of commercial fisheries and safety of commercially harvested seafood products," the lawsuit says. "In so doing, they also threaten those that rely on ocean fisheries and ecosystems for their livelihoods, by rendering it at times impossible to ply their trade."

[link:https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14112018/crab-fishermen-climate-change-lawsuit-fossil-fuel-companies-ocean-algae-neurotoxin-fishery-closure?fbclid=IwAR3g1BXtNcjxkVuSmtQpGODnYr01aLfufN5WMVazh40Pma9rUCMgEjKXxUk|

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2. Good.

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3. are they sailing petroleum fueled boats and driving gas driven cars? nt

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5. This should be very interesting.

Has anyhthng like it been done before? The sooner the fossil fuel companies sink the better.

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