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Rising temperatures complicate efforts to manage cod fishery

Gulf of Maine waters warming more rapidly than most of ocean, study finds

Atlantic cod

CATCHING COD  Researchers in the Gulf of Maine catch Atlantic cod to study how the fish populations have been affected by temperature.

Gulf of Maine Research Institute

By Chris Samoray

- More than 2 years ago

Warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have reduced Atlantic cod populations in that region and distorted estimates of how many fish were available to catch, a new study finds.