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Rising Ocean Temperatures Lead Lobsters Fishers to Other Work

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Studies of lobster populations on the Eastern seaboard have shown a demographic shift north. The trend is driving lobstermen in Connecticut and Rhode Island out of business, ending a centuries-old way of life. Robert Bradfield, a former Newport, Rhode Island, lobsterman, is among those who have gotten out of the business because of the declining catch. Bradfield fondly recalls summer hauls in the 1990s when his traps would be bursting with up to 2,000 pounds of lobsters per day. Before he quit a decade ago, catches had plummeted to maybe 100 pounds. Rhode Island issued 874 commercial lobster licenses in 2013, down from nearly 1,600 in 1998, and the number of lobster traps set by Rhode Island fishermen in southern New England waters has dropped by more than half since 2007.

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