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Good reminder of why we are invested here in MVTG:

http://news.ino.com/headlines/?newsid=689817738567791

Researchers who survey the lobster population in Long Island Sound say they are seeing the fewest number of the crustaceans since they started trawling in the 1980s.

Connecticut state fisheries biologist Penny Howell says the abundance of lobsters has been falling "precipitously" since a devastating die-off in 1999 and there is no sign of a turnaround.

Nick Crismale (KRIS-mah-lee) of Guilford, head of the Connecticut Commercial Lobstermen's Association, says there are only about 30 full-time lobstermen left in the state, down from more than 300 in the late 1990s. He says he turned to clamming this year because it did not make financial sense to put out lobster traps.

Rising water temperatures and runoff contamination are among the factors blamed for the population decline.

Also it seems that major manufacturing dislocations are happening with companies like Toyota again in Asia, not from and earthquake/Tsunamis this time, but from record flooding in Thailand and Bangkok:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/8857442/Warning-of-neck-deep-floods-in-Thailands-capital.html

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/29/8537459-thais-use-improvised-rafts-to-float-around-in-flooded-bangkok

http://newley.com/2011/10/29/thailand-flooding-update-october-29-2011-bangkoks-flood-defenses-hold/