The average sea surface temperature for the Gulf of Maine, which touches Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Canada, was 53.66 degrees, more than 3.7 degrees above the 40-year average.
The waters off New England, which are home to rare whales and most of the American lobster fishing industry, logged the second-warmest year on record last year.
The average sea surface temperature was 53.66 degrees, more than 3.7 degrees above the 40-year average, the scientists said. The accelerated warming is changing an ecosystem that's host to numerous important commercial fishing industries, especially for lobsters, they said. “Who will be the emergent species and who will be the species that decline is, in large part, a function of those interactions,” said Duffy-Anderson. “At the moment, we’re not in a period of stability.”
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