Lobster Institute

Lobsters in the News December 9 – December 22

December 22

• Indonesia considers lifting lobster larvae export ban, by VNA, Vietnam Plus

December 21

• Innovative X-ray lobster-eye mission set to launch, The European Space Agency
• Columbia High School Science Teacher Turns Lobster Prank Into Teachable Moment, by Paul Brubaker, Tap Into Soma
• Winter Harbor Music Festival to ring in with music and a giant lobster, The Ellsworth American
• Westisle students get up close and personal with local biology, by Jillian Trainor, PEI Canada

December 20

• Man shellfish-ly cracks into a whole lobster dinner on the NYC subway, by Ronny Reyes, New York Post
• Lobster trap Christmas tree in Lynn man’s backyard brings community joy, by Susannah Sudborough, Mass Live
• Is It Ever Safe To Cook A Dead Lobster?, by Emma Segrest, Tasting Table
• Schiller Semester Ends with a Tidal Wave of Student Research, by Rebecca Goldfine, Bowdoin College
• Prawns Are Seriously Cheap This Summer – Here’s Why (and What To Do With Them), by Samantha Payne, Broadsheet

December 19

• “Heroic” Rescue Off Nantucket: Station Brant Point Tows Disabled Lobster Boat In Rough Seas, by Jason Graziadei, Nantucket Current
• Filling the gap in crab and lobster fisheries knowledge, by Quentin Bates, Fisker Forum
• Ministry prevented 1.3 million clear lobster seeds’ smuggling in 2023, by Sinta Ambarwati & Resinta Sulistiyandari, ANTARA News

December 18

• San Diego Bay ranked second-best place in CA to catch lobsters, by Anna Ashcraft, News Nation
• Lobster demand remains high during the holidays, by Paul Hollingsworth, CTV News Atlantic
• Following Legal Victory for Maine Lobstermen’s Association, State Receives $17 Million from NOAA to Improve Data on Right Whale, by Libby Palanza, The Maine Wire
• Climate change already impacting global supply chains, by Jerry Pacheco, KRWG Public Media

December 17

• Jersey prisoners help to recycle fishing waste, BBC News

December 16

• Hundreds come out to view the Portland Parade of Lights on Casco Bay, by Owen Kingsley, WGME News
• Support for UK sustainable fishing, by Quentin Bates, Fisker Forum

December 15

• Shediac announces details of biggest lobster fest yet, by Payge Woodard, Telegraph Journal News
• Lobster prices rise as catches fall: ‘They’re all fighting for that product’, by Alex MacIsaac, CBC News

December 14

• Some N.S. lobster fishers report serious decline in catches, by Sean Mott, CTV News Atlantic
• Commission Suspends and Terminates Fishing Privileges for Two SoCal Commercial Lobster Fishermen, by Log Staff, The Log
• Midwest sales of recreationally caught lobster prove costly, West Australia Government

December 13

• ‘Don’t let the lights go out’: Hundreds gather for lighting of Ahavat Achim’s lobster trap menorah, by Ethan Forman, Gloucester Daily Times
• Clearwater Seafoods Achieves Fish Crew Certification for Canadian Vessel Fleet, by Clearwater Seafoods, Perishable News

December 12

• Maine DMR receives $17 million to support Maine’s lobster industry, improve flawed Right Whale data, Boothbay Register
• Maritime comedy Who’s Yer Father? is the cinematic smash Charlottetown has been waiting for, by Josh O’Kane, The Globe and Mail
• Seafood prices to drop as Christmas approaches, by Mikala Theocharous, 9 News Australia
• Commercial fishermen need more support for substance abuse, fatigue: lawmakers, by Patrick Whittle, NECN
• ‘Anarchy will reign’ if Indigenous fishing rights in Maritimes aren’t settled, says former DFO official. by Paul Withers, CBC News

December 11

• Maine is launching a new research program to collect more data about right whales’ whereabouts, by Nicole Ogrysko, Maine Public
• Downes: We must coexist to save the North Atlantic right whale, by Azzedine Downes, Bay to Bay News

December 9

• Gloucester celebrates lighting of annual Lobster Trap Tree, 7 News WHDH
• Mi’kmaq lobster harvesters facing vandalism and intimidation, by Lindsay Jones, The Globe and Mail
• How a thumb-sized climate migrant with a giant crab claw is disrupting the Northeast’s Great Marsh ecosystem, by David S. Johnson, The Conversation

Register U.S.-Canada Lobster Town Meeting

2024 U.S. – Canada Lobster Town Meeting registration is open!

To register and learn more about this year’s meeting Moncton, visit

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Thanks to Fish Canada- Workboat Canada all Town Meeting registrants can attend the boat show for free, January 19-20!

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Registration for the American Lobster Initiative Summit is now open!

Registration for the second Regional Research & Outreach Summit for the ALI is now open (click here for event information). Maine Sea Grant will host this event on February 12-13, 2024, at the Portland Regency Hotel & Spa in Portland, Maine. The 2024 Summit will focus on building bridges across all groups harvesting, researching, and managing lobster to address and collaboratively develop solutions to new challenges the industry is facing. 

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