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New England sees rise in warm-water ocean species
2013-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Fish commonly found in warm ocean waters to the south have become more common in New England as ocean temperatures rise. Over the past two years, fishermen in southern New England have seen an increase in croaker, cobia and spot, species more commonly found in waters off the mid-Atlantic. Certain types of skates and blue crabs are also becoming more numerous, fishermen say. In the colder Gulf of Maine waters north of Cape Cod, black sea bass have become more prevalent the past two summers. Longfin...
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Warming in Greenland Sea Outpaces Global Ocean Warming
2013-09-25 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The Greenland Sea is warming nearly 10 times faster than warming rates estimated for the rest of the global ocean, according to research from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Germany. To investigate climate change in the region, the scientists compiled temperature and salinity measurements taken in the Greenland Sea since 1993 and coupled the data with historical observations dating back to the 1950s. Writing in the journal Geophysical Research...
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Climate Change Devastating Ocean Fisherman
2013-09-24 15:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: For many U.S. fisherman, there`s no debate about climate change. It`s here, and already majorly impacting their industries. In New Jersey, Rutgers scientists have documented for 24 years how climate change is affecting the state`s oceans through weekly fish surveys. The researchers are finding fewer and fewer northern species and more and more southern species - fish like the Atlantic croaker, which historically have rarely ventured into the cool waters surrounding New Jersey. Mackerel and clams,...
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Ocean of change
2013-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Register-Guard: Oregon fishermen tell stories of strange events on the Pacific Ocean that have made them shudder over the past half dozen years. The Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery on the states north coast watched oyster larvae die en masse for three years in a row in the mid-2000s -- depriving oyster farms along the entire West Coast of seed oysters. Florence crabber Al Pazar saw baby octopuses, an inch or two long, climb up his crab lines to escape the sea waters in the 2005 season. When he pulled up...
Verizon Wireless outages restored in Ocean County
2013-09-22 01:15:35| IT Services - Topix.net
Verizon Wireless outages were reported throughout New Jersey Thursday evening. A pedestrian uses her cell phone as she passes a Verizon Wireless store in New York on June 6. / ASSOCIATED PRESS Verizon Wireless restored service in Ocean County early Friday after a cut fiber-optic cable left customers unable to make calls.
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