“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.”
Notice how they switch units when talking about the “drop,” from dollars to pounds. What percentage drop is 22 million pounds? Seventy? Two?
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We need to know the price / pound to make sense of this (if there is any sense to be made)