As waters warm, fish and their forage (like crabs and lobsters), are making a move to the north and into deeper waters to find the cooler waters. The habitats that these species depend on for food, shelter, and spawning are changing, too. A new studay released by NOAA Fisheries bottom trawl survey on the Northeast Shelf, the average shift in distribution for all species from 1967-2016 has been almost 8 miles north per decade and almost 8 feet per decade in depth. 

This is pretty significant data that you can choose to ignore, or grasp the implicatations of warming oceans and what it means for our fisheries.  Its been interesting to witness teh impact to the inshore fisheries here in Massachussets from just 20 years ago.  Inshore specifics were plentiful like Cod and invertebrates provided all the forage needed in the area.  Just 20 years later and Cod are at all time lows and although the lobster fishery is still succesfull its hard to ignore the boom that has occured in the waters to our North off Maine over the past few years.

Take a look at this survey data and what that means to the fish we target in our local water. Pretty interesting stuff and curious to see what happens in the next 20 something years.