Posted on 06/21/2018 11:59:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
VINALHAVEN, Me. - At 3:30 in the morning on a Friday in late May, the lobstermen ate breakfast. Outside, their boats bobbed in the labradorite water, lit only by the dull yellow of streetlamps across the bay. It was windy, too windy for fishing, but one by one the island’s fishermen showed up at the Surfside cafe anyway. Over pancakes and eggs, they grumbled about the season’s catch to date.
Some of the lobstermen said it was just too early in the season. Others feared that it was a sign of things to come. Since the early 1980s, climate change had warmed the Gulf of Maine’s cool waters to the ideal temperature for lobsters, which has helped grow Maine’s fishery fivefold to a half-billion-dollar industry, among the most valuable in the United States. But last year the state’s lobster landings dropped by 22 million pounds, to 111 million.
Now, scientists and some fishermen are worried that the waters might eventually warm too much for the lobsters, and are asking how much longer the boom can last.
“Climate change really helped us for the last 20 years,” said Dave Cousens, who stepped down as president of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association in March. But, he added, “Climate change is going to kill us, in probably the next 30.”
Scientists say a variety of factors have contributed to the boom, including overfishing of predators like cod and the lobstermen’s own conservation efforts. But without climate change, Maine’s lobster fishery would not be anywhere near as successful as it is today, said Richard A. Wahle, a professor at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences.
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Best feed for beef cattle is alfalfa grown in heavily wood ash mulched soils.
(great for people too)
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>> “I presume the Labrador Current migrates in reaction to some mean-spirited, capitalist thing Americans do.” <<
Of course!
I’d really love to, but I’m just too old and busted up.
Of course, lobster tastes so special in Maine because Maine has the best lobsters in the world. And on St. George’s Peninsula, they comes right up out of the bay and on your plate within a half hour. Some excellent cole slaw, some chips and you are set.
Please don’t take miss marmelstein litteraly. Lobsters in Maine do not litteraly crawl out of the ocean and onto your plate ready to eat. (They also take a couple of hours to get from water to boat to pound to restaurant and then your plate.)
Yes, it does read like that, doesn’t it?!
I’ve visited these wonderful Belted Galloway Cow farms in Maine. The owners say “They only have one bad day.” I had initially thought they were dairy cows but they’re bred for the beef. Pretty things, too.
We always rotated our pastures. We grew timothy, clover alfalfa and fescue. We had a few horses so had to be careful with the last. Timothy didn’t pose the problems that fescue did so the horses got timothy. Then our row crops. Corn, wheat and soybeans that helps fix nitrogen back into the soil. We sold our tobacco base long ago so no more tobacco is grow on our farm. We had four burley barns and one dark fired barn.
Wood ash is good but we didn’t have that many trees to turn into ash so...we didn’t rely on it. We did have a garden and put the ashes from our fireplace there for the next year.
your source?..The guy that sold you the Brooklyn bridge?
https://www.maine.gov/dmr/commercial-fishing/landings/documents/lobster.table.pd
Maine Lobster Landings from 1880 to 2017...Will that help?
Sometimes they got a valuable tip in return— and acted on it (Genesis 41).
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