There's not much question about what is happening to lobsters in the waters off southern New England: They are disappearing.
The question is what to do about it — and the key to addressing the problem is to recognize that it does not involve just the seas.
In Long Island Sound, there has been an enormous decline in the lobster catch, a drop of 90 percent from 1999 to 2010. For all practical purposes, lobstering in the Sound is extinct.
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