Lobster Institute

Lobsters in the News February 9 – 21

February 21

• Landings, Maine Lobstermen’s Community Alliance Newsletter, February 2024
• Lobster takes a break – fishing season closes next week, by Aaron Humes, Breaking Belize News
• Ambon has advantages for Indonesia’s blue economy research: BRIN, by Tia Mutiasari, ANTARA News
• National Lobster Hatchery Seeks New Trustees To Join Their Mission, Cornish Stuff

February 20

• Maine Lobster Community Alliance helps coastal communities rebuild, National Fisherman staff
• State selects Sears Island as preferred site for Maine’s new offshore wind port, by Stephen Singer, Portland Press Herald
• South Atlantic council mulling use of ropeless gear in black sea bass fishery, by Chris Chase, Seafood Source

February 19

• Rare colored lobsters are the focus of a new University of New England study, by Vivian Leigh, News Center Maine

February 17

• Another endangered whale was found dead off East Coast. This one died after colliding with a ship, by Patrick Whittle, Associated Press
• Riverside Lobster International’s Closure: A Tale of Struggle, Resilience, and Economic Challenges, by Justice Nwafor, BNN Breaking
• Rock lobster fisher Kyriakos Toumazos stresses the need to diversify markets beyond China, by Dmitri Kallos, Neos Kosmos

February 15

• Massachusetts lobstermen sue NOAA over restricted fishing area, by Chris Chase, Seafood Source
• Maine lobster industry leaders react to North Atlantic right whale death, By Jack Molmud, News Center Maine
• Indigenous Rights Triumph: Cody Caplin’s Lobster Fishing Case Stayed, by Sakchi Khandelwal, BNN Breaking
• Maine lobster industry to ‘review data and evidence’ following gear-linked whale death, by Rachel Sapin, Intrafish

February 14

• For first time, North Atlantic Right Whale death attributed to Maine fishing gear, by Beth Jones, Fox Bangor
• Champlain Seafood blames lack of lobsters for permanent closure of Meteghan, N.S., processing plant, by Preston Mulligan, CBC News

February 13

• Business operations affect fishermen’s resilience to climate change, new study finds, by University of Maine, Phys.org
• P.E.I. company dips into new lobster products, extending work at Tignish plant, by Nancy Russell, CBC News
• How British pop artist Philip Colbert is helping Whitby Lobster Hatchery’s conservation plans, by Duncan Atkins, The Scarborough News

February 12

• Acres of krill spotted off Kaikōura coastline: ‘It’s the most I’ve ever seen’, by Samantha Gee, Radio New Zealand
• ‘On the table, if not on the menu’: Minister to discuss wine, lobster trade restrictions with Chinese counterpart, by Nadia Daly, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

February 9

• No better way to celebrate Nova Scotia than with its lobster crawl, by Nathan Coleman, The Weather Network
• Ministry preparing decree to regulate minimum price of lobster seeds, by Aditya Eko Sigit Wicaksono, ANTARA News
• Australian lobster imports selling better than expensive local products, by Tam An, Vietnam Net Global
• Rare lobsters breed in Sagay Marine Reserve, by Easter Anne Doza, Daily Guardian