date:Apr 24, 2014
obsters could be thinning out for a variety of reasons, said Rick Wahle, the settlement indexs founder and a marine ecologist with the university. One possibility is rising ocean temperature, as the Gulf of Maines temperature began rising more quickly in 2004, he said. Gulf of Maine surface temperatures have increased by an average of .026 degrees Celsius each year since 1982, but after 2004, the pace of warming increased to .26 C per year, according to a 2013 report by the Oceanography Society.