Waters Off New England Coast , Recorded 2nd-Warmest , Year Ever in 2022.
Last year, the waters off the coast of New England, which are home to rare whales and the majority of the American lobster industry, registered the second-warmest year on record.
Associated Press reports that
the Gulf of Maine is warming faster
than most of the world’s oceans.
Scientists with the Gulf of Maine Research Institute said
that last year fell short of setting a new high mark for
hottest year by less than half a degree Fahrenheit.
The rapidly-accelerated warming is causing
changes to an ecosystem that is home to numerous
critical commercial fishing industries.
The rapidly-accelerated warming is causing
changes to an ecosystem that is home to numerous
critical commercial fishing industries.
Janet Duffy-Anderson, chief scientific officer
with the institute, warns that warming is
altering the food chain in the Gulf of Maine.
Who will be the emergent species
and who will be the species
that decline is, in large part,
a function of those interactions, Janet Duffy-Anderson, chief scientific officer with the
Gulf of Maine Research Institute, via Associated Press.
At the moment,
we’re not in a period of stability, Janet Duffy-Anderson, chief scientific officer with the
Gulf of Maine Research Institute, via Associated Press.
According to the report, November and December
both set new records for highest monthly average
sea surface temperature in the Gulf of Maine.
Meanwhile, 2022 was the third-
warmest year for sea surface
temperatures around the world.
What is being observed in the Gulf of Maine
(and elsewhere around the world), however,
is a loss of that balance: larger fractions
of recent years are experiencing above
average temperatures and cold spells
are becoming vanishingly rare, The Gulf of Maine Research Institute
report, via Associated Press