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[deleted] t1_isc9diw wrote

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combatbydesign OP t1_iscascf wrote

Pretty sure lobster fishermen are gonna care when their crops either die off or move to Newfoundland, but yeah, fuck Alaska... I guess?

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Ambitious_Ask_1569 t1_iscdtkn wrote

They already do. Talk to any of them. In Alaska the money is so much bigger and it's a wholesale cull. The boat owners answer to shareholders. In Maine it's your mom and pop neighbors that own the boats. They certainly do care.

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combatbydesign OP t1_iscexm8 wrote

> Right now every lobster fisherman I know in Maine couldn't give 2 shits about Alaska.

> They already do. Talk to any of them.

Either they care that the warming waters, thus the massive decline in crab populations off the Alaska coast, could be foreshadowing a similar series of events off the Maine coast (which is already underway, anyway) or they don't...

...which is it?

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dragonslayermaster84 t1_isco7uw wrote

Have you ever been to Unalaska or Dutch? You don’t know what your talking about. You just spouted what’s known as dog shit.

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LumpyBumpyToad t1_iscasph wrote

Good. Then no one should care about them because we all got shit going on. Wonder how America failed so bad?

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JStengah t1_iscghuy wrote

Doesn't have to be overfished to be facing a massive problem. Climate change doesn't care about fishing practices.

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LumpyBumpyToad t1_iscf65e wrote

I got my own shit going on though? Why should I care about the lobsterman? They don't care about anyone else's problems, remember?

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hike_me t1_iscnsn2 wrote

The gulf of Maine is warming rapidly. Lobsters are moving north (its a dying industry in southern New England). The danger is that the population continues to shift north and the fishery in Maine collapses because there are no longer enough lobster to support the size of the commercial fishery.

Fishermen, however, are adamantly against off-shore wind, which would help reduce fossil fuel use.

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determania t1_isczfqx wrote

I was talking to some researchers this summer who are very concerned about larval lobster abundance the last couple years along the southern coast of Maine. It takes a lobster about 7 years to reach keeper size. Overfishing or not, they should be concerned about the future of the fishery.

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