ELLSWORTH — A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report published last week says that increasing water temperatures are pushing lobsters farther up the East Coast.
According to NOAA climatologists, ocean temperatures around the globe have risen about 0.12 degrees centigrade (just under one-quarter degree Fahrenheit) per decade since 1980. That’s an increase of more than three-quarters of a degree Fahrenheit over the past 36 years.
In the coastal Northeast, sea surface temperatures increased at nearly double the global rate from 1982 to 2006. The warming sea surface temperature – attributable to climate change – is pushing populations of the American lobster farther north than ever before.
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