Tag Archives: increasing water temperatures
Warming waters a major factor in the collapse of New England cod, study finds
Pershing and colleagues from GMRI, the University of Maine, Stony Brook University, the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, and NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, including the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, found that increasing water temperatures reduce the number of new cod produced by spawning females. Their study also suggests that warming waters led to fewer young fish surviving to adulthood. Read the rest here 18:04
Maine’s lobster industry might not last forever. Then what?
As marine experts and fishermen made clear at the Maine Fishermen’s Forum in Rockport recently, the ocean is changing and, with it, the coastal economy. Given the importance of fishing in Maine, particularly the lobster industry, the state needs to learn more not just about how increasing water temperatures Read more here 14:25
