Waters Off New England Coast , Recorded 2nd-Warmest , Year Ever in 2022.<br />Last year, the waters off the coast of New England, which are home to rare whales and the majority of the American lobster industry, registered the second-warmest year on record.<br />Associated Press reports that <br />the Gulf of Maine is warming faster <br />than most of the world’s oceans.<br />Scientists with the Gulf of Maine Research Institute said <br />that last year fell short of setting a new high mark for <br />hottest year by less than half a degree Fahrenheit.<br />The rapidly-accelerated warming is causing <br />changes to an ecosystem that is home to numerous <br />critical commercial fishing industries.<br />The rapidly-accelerated warming is causing <br />changes to an ecosystem that is home to numerous <br />critical commercial fishing industries.<br />Janet Duffy-Anderson, chief scientific officer <br />with the institute, warns that warming is <br />altering the food chain in the Gulf of Maine.<br />Who will be the emergent species <br />and who will be the species <br />that decline is, in large part, <br />a function of those interactions, Janet Duffy-Anderson, chief scientific officer with the <br />Gulf of Maine Research Institute, via Associated Press.<br />At the moment, <br />we’re not in a period of stability, Janet Duffy-Anderson, chief scientific officer with the <br />Gulf of Maine Research Institute, via Associated Press.<br />According to the report, November and December <br />both set new records for highest monthly average<br />sea surface temperature in the Gulf of Maine.<br />Meanwhile, 2022 was the third-<br />warmest year for sea surface <br />temperatures around the world.<br />What is being observed in the Gulf of Maine<br />(and elsewhere around the world), however, <br />is a loss of that balance: larger fractions <br />of recent years are experiencing above <br />average temperatures and cold spells <br />are becoming vanishingly rare, The Gulf of Maine Research Institute <br />report, via Associated Press
