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.
New studies hypothesize the decline is due to climate change. The disconnect has been widespread in the Gulf of Maine and could impact the future of the lobster population.
Patrick Breeding was a biomedical engineering grad student at the University of Maine when, with his co-founder Amber Boutiette, started working with proteins called glycoproteins found in lobsters.
Migrating wildlife can struggle with the extensive fencing throughout the West, and a new study is filling in the gaps on where these fences are in southwest Montana. Simon Buzzard, senior coordinator of wildlife connectivity for the National Wildlife Federation and the report s lead author, said the variety of wildlife in the region is extensive, from large mammals such as pronghorn, mule deer and grizzly bears, to ground-nesting birds such as sage grouse. "This host of species that migrate between public lands and private lands, across elevation changes and across state borders; we don t know how fences are impacting those movements," Buzzard pointed out. " .
A controversial proposal to let individual hunters kill two bears per season instead of one is on the agenda at a meeting of the California Fish and Game Commission s Wildlife Resources Committee tomorrow and Thursday. The state allows hunters as a group to kill 1,700 hundred black bears per year, and 1,300 were taken in 2022. Judie Mancuso, founder and president of the group Social Compassion in Legislation, opposes hunting. .