Billion sea creatures cooked alive by heatwave in Canada

Canada's extreme heat wave is estimated to have more than one billion marine animals cooked alive. That's what a marine biologist from the University of British Columbia calculated. Biologist Chris Harley came to the shocking discovery when he took a walk on the beach near Vancouver at the end of June and met him with the smell of death and rotting. He saw that the rocks in the sea were dotted with ten thousand dead mussels, but also large quantities of starfish, sea snails and lobsters. With a team of students, he explored multiple coastlines and came to the same discovery everywhere.

It's mainly about mussels. The mussel is a mollusk that lives in the tidal zone, often on rock coasts, and can't, or barely move. So it depends entirely on the elements. At low tide, animals are above water, where they can tolerate temperatures up to 30 degrees high for several hours.

Mussels contribute to the natural purification of seawater. Mussels are of great ecological use, as they contribute to seawater purification. Even a small mussel is already able to filter around 25 litres of water between its dishes every day. The mussel does that to get plankton, but the bycatch of bacteria, microplastics and pesticides remain in the mussel and don't flow back into the seawater. In theory, the mussel population can recover within a year or two, but that is only under favorable conditions for the animal. Source: Joop.nl

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