BUCKSPORT, Maine — Seasonal adjustments to the minimum size of lobster that can be caught and a new tiered licensing system are among the measures being considered by state officials to help improve the long-term viability of Maine’s lobster industry.
About 50 people, most of them fishermen, met at the Alamo theater with Maine Department of Marine Resources officials on Wednesday. The meeting was one of more than a dozen scheduled along the coast this month to try to develop a longer-term management strategy for Maine’s lobster fishery, which caught a record volume of 123 million pounds of lobster in 2012.
DMR officials also want to see what can be done to avoid a repeat of last year’s unseasonal glut of soft-shell lobsters and resulting price drop, which contributed to blockades in Canada of Maine lobster.
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