Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬16h ago
In #NewEngland, Catching #Climate Data Along With #Fish
#CommercialFishing vessels are deploying high-tech sensors to map a shifting sea, providing critical data for scientists and some help for the industry.
Bob Hersey Jr., a Maine lobsterman is among nearly 150 #fishermen who have installed temperature sensors on their traps or trawl nets from Maine to North Carolina as part of a program run by a nonprofit organization with help from #NOAA.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/climate/new-england-fishermen-ocean-data.html
https://archive.ph/Pa7s7
In New England, Catching Climate Data Along With Fish

Commercial vessels are deploying high-tech sensors to map a shifting sea, providing critical data for scientists and some help for the industry.

The New York Times
Show threadOzzie D, NP-hard  

@BenjaminHCCarr You're probably well familiar with it, but other folks interested in this subject may enjoy the latest #GBH Big Dig podcast "Catching the Codfather" which (esp in episode 5) gets into the simmering tension between NOAA scientists and commercial fishermen over the catch-share quota system.

https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/thecodfather

Catching The Codfather

A fishing tycoon is arrested in an elaborate sting operation, but claims he’s the real hero fighting back against an overbearing Massachusetts. So who is Carlos “The Codfather” Rafael really – a folk hero, a crook, a righteous rebel, a selfish conman?

GBH
2:52amWeb
Show threadOzzie D, NP-hard  8h ago

@BenjaminHCCarr also on my list: the film "Sacred Cod".

Trailer: https://youtu.be/IWj_7UTdyUo

Bullfrog Films presents...SACRED COD

YouTube