Maine’s haul of lobsters has declined every year from 2021, when it was nearly 111 million pounds, to 2023, when it was less than 97 million pounds. That decline extended into 2024, when the haul was about 86.1 million pounds, according to data released by state regulators on Friday. That is the lowest figure in 15 years
That’s from this AP story, which could be headlined “Yet another predictable result of a warming planet hits even though we don’t want it to.”
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NOAA has a graphic that shows the lobster migration up the East Coast Seaboard over the decades: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-and/climate-lobsters
There’s little hope for things to stop getting worse until we close the rapidly growing US carbon price gap: https://bit.ly/carbon-price-gap-pdf.