A lobster fisher from Wellfleet talks about changes in the sea
For decades in the Gulf of Maine, Damien Parkington has seen lobsters follow the same migration pattern in the spring and early summer, coming in from deeper waters to find a more shallow spot to release their eggs. “The first migration of lobsters is generally egg-bearing females that are searching habitat to go lay their eggs,” he explained. “So the habitat is gonna be a certain type of water, it’s gonna have a certain temperature, it’s going to have a certainty salinity, and they like a certain sandy, gravelly bottom to do that. And they actually kind of nest up and they’ll hang out and fan their eggs, and when everything agrees, they’ll release them.” For as long as Damien can remember, female lobsters have been migrating in to do this at Stellwagen Bank — a sort of underwater shelf or plateau about 25 miles east of Boston and 5 miles north of Provincetown. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 09:28
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