How the Coronavirus Crisis Is Pinching Maine’s Lobster Industry
Maine’s lobster industry will survive the coronavirus pandemic. Individual lobster harvesters—and businesses all along the supply chain —might not. …
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Bill Aims to Help Maine’s Lobster Industry
The bill would direct the Department of Public Safety to exempt intrastate vehicles and drivers carrying live lobsters from hours-of-service restrictions. …
Maine Plan Aims to Reduce Lobstering Impact on Right Whales
Maine’s proposal for protecting endangered right whales from entanglements in lobster gear would maintain the status quo for the number of trap lines in inshore waters where most traps are located while reducing the number of lines farther offshore, officials said Friday. …
Lobster Catch Headed For Decline, Not Crash, Scientists Say
The new studies, both published with University of Maine scientists as lead authors, show a fishery in which warming waters off Maine have changed the dynamics of the lobster population. …
Grant to Help Find New Markets For Maine Lobster
Trade wars can make for strange bedfellows, but few pairings would seem stranger than Maine’s lobster industry and Food Export USA-Northeast, a nonprofit group that works with the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and nine other state agriculture departments throughout the Northeast to promote the export of “food and agricultural products” from the region. …
