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Bywater t1_it0ynur wrote

I mean in sales maybe people will buy lobsters instead of snow crab. Environmentally not directly, but it is for sure a warning of what could happen. It's a pretty delicate balance for the sea insects. In theory it should stay cold enough down there due to the gulf currents and the bay of fundi ones that we have quite awhile before it goes tits up. The problem is we have the gulf slowing (its at its lowest rate on record) so it is going to stall and crawl over our gulf and its mostly shit warm water. The water coming out of the bay being more freshwater (which adds to warmth) and destabilizes the saline content, which makes it warmer along with a global "death" of micro organisms that act as food and change the density of the sea itself, again making it warmer. All these things combine to be the reason our gulf is warming faster than any other ocean bodies right now. Right before Connecticut's lobstering crashed they had record hauls, then boom, shit is done, whatever you manage to catch comes up dead in the trap.

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