The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than almost anywhere on Earth, putting the ecosystem at long-term risk.
, increasing at a rate of 0.8 degrees Fahrenheit each decade in the last 40 years — about three times the global average. At higher water temperatures, lobsters hit what is known as a “stress threshold,” where they become more vulnerable to disease and less likely to reproduce.
In addition, many of the lobsters’ primary predators, such as cod and haddock, have decreased due to overfishing, McCarron said. “A new [marine] heat wave event began on June 25 and has continued through today,” Adam Kemberling, a research technician from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, said in early September. “The recent strong influence of the Gulf Stream will tend to keep temperatures here warmer relative to the past, but this area has a lot of seasonal and interannual variability; fall storms or other weather patterns could disrupt the current heat wave.
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