{"id":222893,"date":"2025-10-04T04:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/accelerated-gulf-of-maine-warming-may-pose-a-serious-threat-to-american-lobsters"},"modified":"2025-10-04T04:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:23:42","slug":"accelerated-gulf-of-maine-warming-may-pose-a-serious-threat-to-american-lobsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/accelerated-gulf-of-maine-warming-may-pose-a-serious-threat-to-american-lobsters","title":{"rendered":"Accelerated Gulf of Maine warming may pose a serious threat to American lobsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/accelerated-gulf-of-maine-warming-may-pose-a-serious-threat-to-american-lobsters.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the world\u2019s oceans, raising concerns for its $2 billion-a-year American lobster fishery. Scientists at William &amp; Mary\u2019s Batten School &amp; VIMS have been studying the impacts of ocean acidification and warming on lobster reproduction, and the results of their most recent research suggest the rising temperatures pose the greatest risk.<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing a purpose-built experimental facility designed by Professor Emily Rivest and housed in the Batten School of Coastal &amp; Marine Sciences &amp; VIMS\u2019 Seawater Research Laboratory, the researchers exposed egg-bearing lobsters from the Gulf of Maine to water temperature and pH conditions that mimic those predicted for 2060.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.int-res.com\/abstracts\/meps\/v770\/meps14939\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> in the journal <i>Marine Ecology Progress Series<\/i>, the results revealed that the embryos can handle ocean acidification surprisingly well, but increased temperatures led to distinct stress responses that ultimately resulted in smaller larvae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the world\u2019s oceans, raising concerns for its $2 billion-a-year American lobster fishery. Scientists at William &amp; Mary\u2019s Batten School &amp; VIMS have been studying the impacts of ocean acidification and warming on lobster reproduction, and the results of their most recent research suggest the rising [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}