Study looking at climate impacts to local whelk fishery - The Martha's Vineyard Times

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Study looking at climate impacts to local whelk fishery - The Martha's Vineyard Times

A research professor at the University of New Hampshire’s Coastal Marine Laboratory is investigating how changing water temperatures off the coast of Massachusetts — and particularly Martha’s Vineyard — impacts the offspring of a valuable state fishery. Elizabeth Fairchild, research associate professor at the marine laboratory and a scientist with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, will analyze changes to the female eggs of whelk…