date:Apr 24, 2014
Some of the most lobster-rich areas have seen a dramatic decline, including midcoast Maine, which dropped from about 21/2 first-year lobsters per square meter in 2011 to just above zero in 2013, data shows. Midcoast Maines settlement level was close to two baby lobsters per square meter in 2004 and 2005 and about one in 2006, the years in which lobsters now being caught were likely settling. The temperature at the bottom of the Gulf of Maine rose from just above 7 degrees C to about 8.5 degree