New research done by a team of scientists at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center shows that rising temperatures in coastal waters along the East Coast could be lowering overall productivity in the North Atlantic food chain, slowing the growth of fish and shellfish. That means fewer fish in the ocean now than scientists anticipated, and lowered expectations for the size of fish populations once New England's severely depleted stocks are rebuilt to healthy levels in the future.

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