"Crab Fishers Sue Fossil Fuel Industry Over Climate Change Damage", 14 Nov 2018

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...

"These changes...threaten those that rely on ocean fisheries and ecosystems for their livelihoods..."...Because of the ocean warming brought on by greenhouse gas emissions, the crab fishing industry has been deprived of fishing opportunities, and consequently suffered severe financial hardships, the lawsuit says...The crab fleet is responsible for thousands of jobs on the boats and thousands more in the local businesses that support the fishery...