This is part five of a six-part series.

If you've missed the first few episodes,

go back and listen to it.

It'll be caught up on the story up to this point.

In today's episode, we're going to look at why it matters

that this is the first industry to sue Big Oil.

And what this case and this sort of David versus Goliath's

struggle might mean for other industries.

Previously on Drill'd.

If you know that your product is going to destroy the world,

you have to be yelling that from the mountaintops,

frequently and constantly.

The West Coast Dungeoness crab fishery off the California

Oregon coast is one of the most sustainable fisheries in the world.

Cravers throw back females and juvenile males,

so the stock is self-replenishing.

Repeated closures since 2015 are unusual in US fisheries,

which are typically shut down for stock depletion.

And while that can be exacerbated by climate change

and warming oceans as well, the case here is a little more direct.

Warmning oceans grow more algae, more algae means more dameauic acid,

and that's what's resulted in the repeated shutdowns for this fishery.

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