The Icelandic lobster stock is at an historic low and last fishing season was the worst catch ever known in Iceland.

Lobster stocks around Iceland’s coast are so low a fishing ban is not out of the question.

The lobster population has crashed to the lowest levels on record in southern New England while climbing to heights never before seen in the cold waters off Maine and other northern reaches — a geographic shift that scientists attribute in large part to the warming of the ocean.