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Climate Change Brought a Lobster Boom. Now It Could Cause a Bust.
New York Times ^ | June 21, 2018 | By Livia Albeck-Ripka

Posted on 06/21/2018 11:59:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

VINALHAVEN, Me. - At 3:30 in the morning on a Friday in late May, the lobstermen ate breakfast. Outside, their boats bobbed in the labradorite water, lit only by the dull yellow of streetlamps across the bay. It was windy, too windy for fishing, but one by one the island’s fishermen showed up at the Surfside cafe anyway. Over pancakes and eggs, they grumbled about the season’s catch to date.

Some of the lobstermen said it was just too early in the season. Others feared that it was a sign of things to come. Since the early 1980s, climate change had warmed the Gulf of Maine’s cool waters to the ideal temperature for lobsters, which has helped grow Maine’s fishery fivefold to a half-billion-dollar industry, among the most valuable in the United States. But last year the state’s lobster landings dropped by 22 million pounds, to 111 million.

Now, scientists and some fishermen are worried that the waters might eventually warm too much for the lobsters, and are asking how much longer the boom can last.

“Climate change really helped us for the last 20 years,” said Dave Cousens, who stepped down as president of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association in March. But, he added, “Climate change is going to kill us, in probably the next 30.”

Scientists say a variety of factors have contributed to the boom, including overfishing of predators like cod and the lobstermen’s own conservation efforts. But without climate change, Maine’s lobster fishery would not be anywhere near as successful as it is today, said Richard A. Wahle, a professor at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: fakescience; globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 06/21/2018 11:59:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Even when it's good they have to find a reason it's bad.

2 posted on 06/21/2018 12:03:01 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Crops, fisheries, and all things natural are subject to thousands and thousands of conditions large and small which determine their yield, always have and always will.

5000 years ago farmers and fisherman respectively prayed for a good harvest and good catch. Some years their prayers were answered, some years they weren't. It has always been so.
 

3 posted on 06/21/2018 12:05:40 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You should change your handle to chicken little.


4 posted on 06/21/2018 12:05:54 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Stuff goes in cycles. There are many factors. Sending trillions to globalists is not the solution.


5 posted on 06/21/2018 12:06:02 PM PDT by lurk
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To: BitWielder1

I’ll be up there in August - right across from Vinalhaven eating three weeks worth of lobsters (shedders). Most of them are sold to Canada where they are canned.


6 posted on 06/21/2018 12:07:37 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

YES, Climate changes. It always has, it always will.

Our lifetimes, on earth, are short.

“Blah, blah, blah, in my lifetime.” BIG DEAL! SO WHAT? Your “lifetime” is too short a measure of time to draw conclusions from.

Even if a change happens that never happened before, SO WHAT?

What guarantee does anyone have that things can’t ever change? NONE!

And, not to mention that puny, insignificant, human beings CAN’T affect global climate anyway.


7 posted on 06/21/2018 12:13:45 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Follow the money trail....
These idiots were say....and do....ANYTHING to foister this ridiculous fraud upon the “unwashed masses”. What they’re really after is the billions of dollars in taxes/fines/tariffs etc. to the “fight” climate change fraud.
They know if they can “convince” the “unwashed masses”, they’ll have billions in new tax revenue to play with while the rest of us just get poorer.


8 posted on 06/21/2018 12:16:26 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The climate change Borg ate my lobster too?


9 posted on 06/21/2018 12:24:53 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: BitWielder1

This is typical. X happens, it’s golbal warming; the opposite happens, it’s global warming. Nothing falsifies gw.


10 posted on 06/21/2018 12:25:30 PM PDT by djpg
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lobsters all lived in one spot for 3.8 billion years ...
until the mid-20th century and the appearance of man-made CO2 ...
which was diabolically designed to be different than natural CO2.

(excerpted from the Journals of #FakeScience)


11 posted on 06/21/2018 12:28:13 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: lgjhn23; faucetman; lurk; Oldeconomybuyer
You don't need to worry about this because the problem is being solved.

Fossil fuel is gradually being replaced by renewable energy here in the US and around the world. And this will continue at a quicker pace

The price of fossil fuels will continue to go up and the price of renewable energy will continue to go down.

Eventually fossil fuel will become a problem of the past and the GOP will be in deep shit because the fossil fuel industry won't have the money to bankroll the republican party anymore

12 posted on 06/21/2018 12:32:35 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Island Institute, based in Rockland, ME does some good stuff for the island communities. I regularly read their free paper “Working Waterfront.” Each issue has at least two doom and gloom articles about how climate change is going to submerge the islands, wreck the lobster industry, etc. The only thing they’re missing is islands turning over, Guam style.


13 posted on 06/21/2018 12:32:44 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Please, the indentured servitude contracts from the early days of Europeans coming to this continent used to have limits on how often the servant would be fed lobster, because they were literally so plentiful on the beaches of new england that folks were literally SICK of being fed nothing but lobster...

Was Climate Change responsible for that??


14 posted on 06/21/2018 12:35:27 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

After you’ve watched a lobster being eaten alive by other lobsters in a market lobster tank, you don’t feel so bad.


15 posted on 06/21/2018 12:36:35 PM PDT by pabianice
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...which has helped grow Maine’s fishery fivefold to a half-billion-dollar industry, among the most valuable in the United States. But last year the state’s lobster landings dropped by 22 million pounds, to 111 million.

So let me get this straight. First, the lobster business increases five-fold, then it drops less than 17%, and the fisherman are crying "global warming?"

Another BS FakeNews story.

16 posted on 06/21/2018 12:37:24 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You are doing a better job than I am keeping track of of every disaster Globull Warming MIGHT cause :)

It’s affecting everything, don’cha know.


17 posted on 06/21/2018 12:40:17 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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To: CaptainPhilFan

The genius who invented all the products in our successful business was lecturing me about globull warming yesterday.

What an idiot!

Freegards


18 posted on 06/21/2018 12:41:46 PM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Since the early 1980s, climate change had warmed the Gulf of Maine’s cool waters to the ideal temperature for lobsters, which has helped grow Maine’s fishery fivefold to a half-billion-dollar industry, among the most valuable in the United States. But last year the state’s lobster landings dropped by 22 million pounds, to 111 million.”

Notice how they switch units when talking about the “drop,” from dollars to pounds. What percentage drop is 22 million pounds? Seventy? Two?


19 posted on 06/21/2018 12:42:15 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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The constant dump of Bovine Excrement on our heads gets tiresome.
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20 posted on 06/21/2018 12:43:02 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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