Graham Sherwood
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first heard Feb 2026
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The fishing industry in Maine looks like lobsters.
There's some ground fishing, no shrimping, but lobsters is kind of where it's at.
So we've seen a rise in lobster landings over the last couple decades, and it actually hit a maximum in 2016.
And that could be related somewhat to warming, actually.
It increased some of their productivity.
What we've seen over the last 10 years or so
There's a little bit of coming back from that, and it might seem like it's getting too warm for lobsters, but I should mention the lobsters are still a highly valuable fishery in the United States.
I do not.
We have seen this warming trend sort of persisting over the last couple decades.
Now, certainly there's a lot of variability, but if we look at the long-term trend, we're actually seeing the Gulf of Maine warming significantly.
faster than most areas of the globe.
So there's no reason to expect that trend to come back anytime soon.
We're starting to see indications that it might be warming too much for lobsters, although lobsters as an industry is still doing very well.
The history of the Gulf of Maine is sort of centered around a lot of ground fish species like Atlantic cod.
Cod is more or less feeling the same kind of effects of warming as the shrimp, and we've seen their populations decline to historically low levels.
We're also seeing some bright spots in terms of recovery.
There's been a lot of habitat restoration efforts, mostly to remove dams and rivers.
And what that has led to is a resurgence of river herring, particularly a species known as alewife, which is a silvery fish that's food for many other species in the ocean.
Any kind of silvery fish in the Gulf of Maine is a potential bait fish for the lobster industry.
And so there is potential economic value in that.
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