Ask The Expert: Climate Change (Virtual) Friday April 23, 2021
Free
Learn more about how climate change has accelerated a collision between right whales, one of the worldâs most endangered species, and the lobster industry, North Americaâs most valuable fishery. Come meet reporter and documentary filmmaker, David Abel, at our next
Ask The Expert event. Bring your questions and learn more about his new film,
Entangled, which documents how the warming waters of the Gulf of Maine have forced the whales to search for food in new areas let to a rise in deaths due to the entanglements in fishing lines and vessel strikes. Over the past decade, the right whale population has plummeted by 25 percent, leaving only about 360 left.