Warm-Water Fish and Crabs Overtaking Narragansett Bay. By Alisha A. Pina, Providence Journal,August 21, 2010. "Save The Bay's Baykeeper John Torgan can't remember this many blue crabs in Narragansett Bay, once the northernmost vacation spot for warm-water crustaceans, but now they are... rampant... A leading theory suggests that climate change... is transforming the Bay into something like the Chesapeake and other southern estuaries… Narragansett Bay's waters are two to three degrees warmer than a few decades ago... Torgan said Rhode Island's resident fish, particularly the winter flounder, have 'declined precipitously' as the Bay has warmed."
2010-09-03
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