PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 5, 2020
Lobsters living in ocean water as warm and acidic as the Gulf of Maine is expected to be by the end of this century will be less able to cope with stress or fight off disease, according to University of Maine researchers studying the impacts of the gulf’s changing environment. The Gulf of Maine has been warming rapidly as the deep-water currents that feed it have shifted. It has warmed faster than anyplace else on the planet since 2004, except for an area northeast of Japan.