Blue crabs, quintessential to the Chesapeake Bay and Gulf Coast, have been known to show up now and then in northern lobster traps. But about three to four years ago, scientists started hearing reports of more sightings in the warming Gulf of Maine.
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A temperature shift in the Gulf of Maine, along with other factors, may be making Maine more hospitable to these harder-shelled cousins of the soft-shell clams.