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Warming waters, local differences in oceanography affect Gulf of Maine lobster population

Two new studies published by University of Maine scientists are putting a long-standing survey of the American lobster’s earliest life stages to its most rigorous test yet as an early warning system for trends in New England’s iconic fishery. The studies point to the role of a warming ocean and local differences in oceanography in the rise and fall of lobster populations along the coast from southern New England to Atlantic Canada. >click to read< 12:36

Connecticut: State study an important first step in solving lobster die-off

T0912_Lobster_cover_CM_C.jpgDepending on whom you ask, there’s a variety of answers for why the lobster population is falling, starting with a die-off in 1999, the year after the peak, when the take was down more than a million pounds. Lobstermen have claimed, State scientists have blamed. Read more here 20:19