{"id":1581,"date":"2021-12-07T13:17:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2021-12-07T13:34:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:34:10","slug":"hakai_magazine_12_2_2021_article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/hakai_magazine_12_2_2021_article\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers raise concerns about Arctic food web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hakai Magazine\u00a0<\/em>interviewed research biologists Evie Fachon at WHOI and Kathi Lefebvre at the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Washington for an article focusing on the potential for a significant increase in <em>Alexandrium catenella<\/em> harmful algal blooms due to warming Arctic waters. <em>Alexandrium catenella<\/em> blooms produce saxitoxin, a neurotoxin that paralyzes the nervous system in wildlife and humans and cannot be removed by cooking or freezing, thus raising serious concerns for food security for Native Alaskan communities that rely on wild harvests.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1582\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1582\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1582 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/12\/Alaska-Indigenous-Harvesters-1024x492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/12\/Alaska-Indigenous-Harvesters-1024x492.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/12\/Alaska-Indigenous-Harvesters-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/12\/Alaska-Indigenous-Harvesters-768x369.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/12\/Alaska-Indigenous-Harvesters.jpg 1330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The arrival of toxin-producing Alexandrium catenella blooms in Alaska\u2019s Arctic is a dangerous sign for communities that rely heavily on local food supplies. Photo by Design Pics Inc\/Alamy Stock Photo, published in Hakai Magazine, 12\/2\/21<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/news\/in-a-first-alaskas-arctic-waters-appear-poised-for-dangerous-algal-blooms\/\">link to the article<\/a> written by Tim Lydon and published online in <em>Hakai Magazine,<\/em> 12\/2\/21.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hakai Magazine\u00a0interviewed research biologists Evie Fachon at WHOI and Kathi Lefebvre at the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Washington for an article focusing on the potential for a significant increase in Alexandrium catenella harmful algal blooms due to warming Arctic waters. Alexandrium catenella blooms produce saxitoxin, a neurotoxin that paralyzes the nervous system&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/andersonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}