They mention the shrimp briefly, and the acidification issues and some other stuff going on. But don’t dig into any of it much.
For articles purportedly about Climate Change and fisheries they do very little digging into either. It’s much more of a human interest/community profile angle. Very hung up on the economics in the area, and purported doom coming from government regulation.
They don’t mention any other factors in either the collapse in the Long Island Sound (not even identifying it as the Sound it’s just “Connecticut”) besides climate. Or any of the other reasons that Maine and Canada’s fisheries have been booming.
The big one on both being fisheries management. Further south we did a real bad job on that, still allowing fisherman to take female lobsters. Capping and controlling size poorly. Where as Maine and Canada absolutely do not allow any females to be sold, and have much better size controls and quota systems.
They briefly mention the disease out breaks that tanked the Sound fishery, but only as a warming water problem that might happen in Maine. And the issue isn’t as simple as they let on.
They mostly focus on the lobster having moved North, and the fact that they’re continuing to do so. But there’s a lot more going on here.
