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• Study: Maine Fishermen Should Plan For Accelerated Ocean Warming

  Climate change is triggering more and more surprise variations in temperatures in the world’s oceans, including off Maine, and those spikes are changing

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• Maine white fish a hit in UMF dining hall as university looks to source local

  It's healthy food; it adds to consumer demand and gives fishermen more options when they're fishing; and it introduces students to new species.

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• Changing climate to put further pressure on New England, federal report predicts

  It says 'iconic fisheries' in the Northeast, including lobster, face a bleaker future because of rising acidity levels in the ocean.

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• An ocean ‘heat wave’ just drove temperatures off Maine to near-record highs

  There are “weird things happening in the Gulf of Maine,” a scientist says.

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• Buckfield teacher receives McCarthy Education Innovation Award

  PORTLAND — The Gulf of Maine Research Institute honored Buckfield Junior-Senior High School teacher Gretchen Kimball with the fifth annual McCarthy Education Innovation Award. GMRI …

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• Climate Change Brought a Lobster Boom. Now It Could Cause a Bust.

  Warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have benefited lobsters and the lobstermen who trap them. But as temperatures rise further, will the industry reach …

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• Demand for underused fish species grows slowly but surely in Maine

  The trend may have something to do with a three-year-old Gulf of Maine Research Institute effort to get restaurants to serve less-traditional catches.

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• Floating the idea of more Maine shellfish, everywhere

  As regional and global markets clamor for cold water shellfish, the state's producers look to expand their market base.

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• Portland, South Portland plan to fight against climate change

  Municipal officials hope to develop plans for each community to reduce carbon footprints and counter the effects of global warming.

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• Research Concludes Maine Conservation Technique Helped Drive Lobster Population Boom

  Lobster conservation techniques pioneered by Maine fishermen helped drive a population boom that's led to record landings this century. That's the

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