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Strange creatures in RI’s waters
7:12AM ON
06/30/2008
BY
Dave Segal
URI’s claiming a significant shift in underwater fauna, following from global warming:
According to Jeremy Collie, professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, the fish community has shifted progressively from vertebrate species (fish) to invertebrates (lobsters, crabs and squid) and from benthic or demersal species — those that feed on the bottom — to pelagic species that feed higher in the water column. In addition, smaller, warm-water species have increased while larger, cool-water species have declined.
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