There’s quite an in-genre brouhaha forming over, of all things, a warm oceanic current. It is quite a current, though, especially from our point of view. Enter the Gulf Stream, though it may be entering a lot slower than in the past.

The Gulf Stream is no stranger to this column. It is a crucial artery for transporting larval fish life northward from the south, ending up in the Middle Atlantic Bight. Those fish-in-progress eventually arrive in Barnegat Bay, usually with an onshore wind assist.