BDN, CBS 5 interview Brady on threats to aquaculture from climate change
The Bangor Daily News and WABI (CBS 5 in Bangor) interviewed Damian Brady, professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, on the threats climate change presents to the aquaculture industry. Brady said challenges to the industry extend beyond the Gulf of Maine’s warming waters — which he explained also presents new opportunities — to threats such as increased frequency of damaging storms with strong winds. He added that aquaculture facilities tend to be more sheltered from these storms than commercial fishing piers, but they’re not immune to damage. “Aquaculturists are super resilient, super innovative and very passionate about this,” Brady said. “They keep working at it and tweaking it and tweaking it.”