Curtis Haynungs is in his happy place as he’s about to set off for the open water on the Gulf of Mexico. The hobby fisherman unties the ropes holding his white, eight-metre-long, twin engine boat to the dock, and eases away as the engines begin to purr.
WALPOLE New information is emerging on how climate change is affecting American lobster populations and their connections to other species in the marine food web in the earliest stages of their life cycle, the University of Maine's Darling Marine Center (DMC) announced in a recent press release.
Viewed by the Chumash people as their ancestral home, the Native American tribe is behind the first Indigenous-led initiative to protect the ocean and repair its damaged ecosystem