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From Maine’s warming waters, kelp emerges as a potentially lucrative cash crop
Janelle Nanos, Boston Globe Fisheries & Aquaculture
One bright, brisk morning last month, Colleen Francke steered her skiff a mile off the coast of Falmouth and cut the gas. A few white buoys bobbed in straight lines on the water. Francke reached down and hoisted a rope.
She has been lobstering for a decade and a half, she says, but as climate change warms local waters and forces lobsters northward, she’s been finding it harder to envision a future in that industry.
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