{"id":12918,"date":"2017-10-29T18:29:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T22:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12918"},"modified":"2017-10-29T18:29:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T22:29:35","slug":"hurricane-irma-cuts-florida-lobster-harvest-in-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/10\/hurricane-irma-cuts-florida-lobster-harvest-in-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irma cuts Florida lobster harvest in half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One under-reported impact from Hurricane Irma was addressed by CGTN.com this week <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/3d45544e77514464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856\/share_p.html\">here<\/a>. Local fishermen report that Irma hit just a month into the lobster harvesting season and lost up to 43% of their traps, which will have to be replaced.\u00a0 In addition, silt from streams flowing into the ocean may have affected the lobsters.\u00a0 Some fishermen say this is likely to be the worst catch in 50 years, and at best they will get about 50% of the usual harvest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/lobster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9668\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/lobster-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/lobster-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/lobster-210x138.jpg 210w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/lobster.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One under-reported impact from Hurricane Irma was addressed by CGTN.com this week here. Local fishermen report that Irma hit just a month into the lobster harvesting season and lost up to 43% of their traps, which will have to be replaced.\u00a0 In addition, silt from streams flowing into the ocean may have affected the lobsters.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-coastal","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12919,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions\/12919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}