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There’s monotony to the stories of the fishing industries in New England. Whaling, for example, started by harvesting whales that came ashore, then went to coastal whaling, and finally became expeditions of up to four years into the Pacific in search of the dwindling whale population. And stories like this of over-fishing abound. But I can’t find much that suggests that we have something to do with the Red Tide. Some think it has something to do with climate change or sewage, but that’s speculative. Whatever the case, enjoy your chowder while you can.<\/div>\n
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If it’s not one thing, then it’s another. If it weren’t enough that the moon snails are multipying in Lubec and feasting on the clams in the mud flats, then there’s always the "Red Tide," a plankton that produces a paralytic toxin that doesn’t hurt the shellfish but does it’s damage to their upper level […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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If it’s not one thing, then it’s another. If it weren’t enough that the moon snails are multipying in Lubec and feasting on the clams in the mud flats, then there’s always the "Red Tide," a plankton that produces a paralytic toxin that doesn’t hurt the shellfish but does it’s damage to their upper level predators [that’s us]. So when the "Red Tide" "blooms," the shell fishermen are out of work [like now]. The tide first came to New England in 1972, and has periodically reappeared since then. Apparently, the redness is subtle because it doesn’t look red to me, so it is detected by assaying for cysts or by fluorescent photography as in the image below left. <\/p>\n