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Gulf of Maine fishermen face warming 'double whammy'
2016-01-14 14:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: After David Goethel set out on his 44-foot trawler on a calm New England day last week, he caught a third of his cod quota for the year in about 10 minutes. In 2010, Goethel was allowed to land about 60,000 pounds of cod. This year, following a population crash linked to warming waters, his limit was set at a meager 3,700 pounds. Oceans are sucking down most of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases, but the rate of warming has been especially high during the last decade in the Gulf of Maine, which...
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