An August 25th article in the New York Times (NYT), titled “What the Lobstermen of Maine Tell Us About the Election” claims “…as far as climate change goes, Maine’s lobster fishing community may well be America’s own canary in the coal mine,” implying that harm to Maine’s lobster fishing industry is an early indicator of the dangers from climate change. This is false. Multiple lines of data show that the Maine lobster industry is doing well. Amid a mild warming over the past century, record lobster hauls have been recorded in the last 10 years even as the number of licensed lobstermen has fallen significantly.
Climate Realism discussed the fortunes of the lobster fishery in the face of climate change previously in an October 2020 Climate Realism story.
“The Maine Department of Marine Resouces (DMR) reports that each of the 10 highest annual lobster catches occurred during the past 10 years,” reported the 2020 Climate Realism post. “Lobster catches in Maine are presently double what they were just 20 years ago.”
With two additional years of data, the story is still the same, recent years catches remain among the highest ever recorded.
In fact, DMR data show that amid historically normal year to year variations in catch totals, over the past 34 year period of modest warming, Maine’s lobster catch has increased by approximately 288 percent since 1990, even as the number of licensed lobster fishers declined by almost 13 percent, largely due to stricter regulations raising the cost to operators. (See the table, below) […]
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