Blue crab, Golf Coast. (Callinectes sapidusthis). Photo source: ©© Jere7My
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The recently observed northern migration of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidusthis, a commercially important species, could be yet another sign of climate change.
“Climate change is lowering the thermal barriers that kept species from moving toward the poles. It presents a challenge not only for ecologists, but for fisheries managers as commercially important species shift their ranges in response to warming oceans…”
