It considered four factors to calculate an estimate of the economic losses associated with the decrease in seagrass: commercial fisheries, recreational fishing, residential property values, and carbon sequestration. “The social cost of carbon just puts a monetary value on releasing a ton of carbon dioxide or CO2 into the atmosphere in terms of its costs in the future to property values and the cost of governments and taxpayers, the food system, and human health.” “With the value of the resources of fisheries habitat, we picked three species, blue crab, spotted sea trout, and red drum to look at the importance of SAV economically to those fisheries.”