Bayer Quoted in BDN Article on Maine Lobster Industry
The Bangor Daily News spoke with Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, for the article, “Lobster industry grateful for ‘normal’ summer.” Warm water during the past couple of years disrupted the fishery’s patterns, forcing prices down, according to the article.
This year, lobsters have been shedding and growing larger shells later than in 2012 and 2013, and the resulting increase in landings has not occurred as early as it did during those summers, the article states. Bayer said the late onset of landings could be a good sign for September and October, when much of the annual harvest is brought ashore. “It’s been a quiet summer,” Bayer said. “It looks like [it could be] a strong fall.”