On Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 8:51:03 PM UTC-4, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 6/4/17 7:29 PM, justan wrote:
True North Wrote in message:
Tim
On Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 6:17:43 AM UTC-5, Mr. Luddite wrote:
... to Massachusetts
http://i.imgur.com/bzeiYdA.png
"LOL! Too funny! "vacations and lobstahs""
Yeah..the arrow points to Nova Scotia for those delights.
I suppose Maine does export lobsta to the maratimes.
If only you knew something of value...
Long Island Sound...mostly Connecticut and Rhode Island...had a thriving
lobster industry until the 1990s, when global warming in that body of
water started the critters moving north. There are still lobsters in the
Sound, but not like there used to be. As the waters around Maine warm,
the lobsters will be heading north...to Canada.
Really?
"Maine's lobster catches will likely peak early this year, which could mean an abundance of cheap lobster for consumers and bad news for the state's signature industry, a group of scientists reported on Thursday.
Maine's busy summer lobster fishing season typically picks up around early July, the same time the state's tourism industry gets in gear. But scientists with the Portland-based Gulf of Maine Research Institute predict this year's lobster season will get rolling two or three weeks early.
The scientists, who unveiled their findings during the Maine Fishermen's Forum in Rockport, pinned the early lobster season on warming ocean temperatures. Along Maine's coast, temperatures are 2 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit higher than normal. That means lobsters are likely to move inshore, shed their shells and become more easily trapped earlier this summer, they said.
An early lobster season can disrupt Maine's valuable lobster supply chain, which is partially dependent on big July and August catches, and make prices plummet. Prices at the dock fell 16 percent in 2012, a year of early catches, and prices to consumers fell, too. The 2014 haul shattered state value records because of a high-volume catch that arrived on schedule.
Read more at:
https://phys.org/news/2016-03-ocean-...bster.html#jCp
Sounds like the catch is "high volume", but just doesn't coincide with the tourist season. Ah, big business.
Besides, Maine lobster is MUCH better than "nad lobster. You should know that.