Researchers find abnormally warm Atlantic waters off Nova Scotia

A federal scientist says deep water off the southern coast of Nova Scotia was abnormally warm earlier this week. Scientists found water temperatures reaching 14 C during a regular survey Sunday and Monday of the northeast channel in the Gulf of Maine between Georges Bank and the Scotian Shelf. Dave Hebert, a research scientist at the federal Fisheries Department's Halifax office, says that's six degrees warmer than the average water temperature. From the Canadian Press