A fascinating look at how climate change affects the lobster industry

The Boston Globe's Spotlight team and the Portland Press Herald recently teamed up for a two-part in-depth examination of the impacts of climate change on the Maine lobster industry, focusing on the town of Vinalhaven. The remote island town of a thousand or so people is one of the busiest fishing villages in the state, with a handful of residents earning an average of half a million dollars annually from lobstering. — Read the rest