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Does fishing have a future in New England?

Cod have been disappearing from the waters between Massachusetts and Maine, and shrimp populations are so depleted that the commercial shrimp season in the Gulf of Maine has been cancelled for the last three years. At the same time, lobster are flourishing — alongside a host of species that have never before thrived in New England waters. Why the wild ups and downs? One reason is that nearby waters are warming much faster than the […]

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