Sick Lobster (IMAGE)

Cornell University

Sick Lobster

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Lobster severely infected with epizootic shell disease. Shell disease has devastated the southern New England lobster fishery, and now with warming oceans, projections reveal the Maine lobster industry may be at risk.

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Jeff Shields, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

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