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Collapse of New England's iconic cod tied to climate change
2015-10-29 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: The Atlantic cod, a fish that came to symbolize bounty to Americas colonial settlers, is on the brink of disappearing, despite years of fishing limits aimed at rebuilding stocks. A new study reveals why: Cod spawning and survival has been hampered by rapid, extraordinary ocean warming in the Gulf of Maine, where sea surface temperatures rose faster than anywhere else on the planet between 2003 and 2014. Over this same 10-year period, fishery managers set quotas that they felt were informed by...
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