Record-Breaking Ocean Temperatures Reported: Warming Waters Impact Shrimp Fishery
Record-breaking warm temperatures were captured in the annual Atlantic Ocean monitoring program in the spring of 2022. This spring, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) scientist Chantelle Layton, who is part of the DFO team analyzing last year’s data, found record high temperatures across the survey area on the Scotian Shelf – the section of the Continental Shelf off Nova Scotia – excluding the eastern Scotia Shelf, where DFO didn’t conduct an ecosystem survey last year. …