Water too warm for cod in US Gulf of Maine as stocks near collapse

Waters in the north-west Atlantic have warmed 99% faster than the rest of the world's oceans in the past decade due to changes in the Gulf Stream and Pacific

A rapid warming of the Gulf of Maine off the eastern United States has made the water too warm for cod, pushing stocks towards collapse despite deep reductions in the number of fish caught, a US study has shown.

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