fallingfrog t1_iscpvya wrote
Last time I went out to the islands in blue hill bay I was really surprised how much the fauna had changed. Mussels used to carpet the rocks, now almost totally gone, replaced by hermit crabs and starfish.
Not only that, but when I was little, we had never heard of “red tide”, and then it became a thing that happened occasionally, and now it’s red tide conditions pretty much all the time.
gulfofmainah t1_isdkqmu wrote
Replaced? Star fish have made a historic comeback after a couple decades of invasive green crabs. Star fish on the shore was the regular for thousands of years. Green crabs became very prevalent in the last 30-40 years in the bilge of tanker and cruise ships which also have been linked to a dozen whale deaths during the same period. I’d say the industry destroying the gulf of Maine isn’t the lobster fishery
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