Lobster Institute

Lobsters in the News January 7 – January 28

January 26

• Shellfish paralytic biotoxin warning lifted for East Coast, by 1News Reporters, 1News

January 25

• Report: Human tragedy stalks the prized Honduran lobster industry, by Shreya Dasgupta, Mongabay
• Asia Minute: Lobster politics sweep the Asia Pacific, by Bill Dorman, Hawai’I Public Radio
• Marine biotoxin event worst to hit NZ lobster industry, by Sarah Curtis, The Gisborne Herald

January 23

• Change to minimum U.S. lobster size ‘a big jump,’ says P.E.I. marketing board, by Kevin Yarr, CBC News
• Maine fishing towns rebuild in wake of monstrous storm, by Don Carrigan, News Center Maine
• China’s ban on Australian lobsters has Asean members clawing way into market, by Mia Nulimaimaiti, South China Morning Post

January 22

• UNE receives two new rare lobsters, launches novel research initiative to decode their DNA, by Alan Bennett, University of New England

January 21

• In Stonington, threats to fishing community and lost access to mainland, by Penelope Overton, Portland Press Herald
• Why I’m Voting: A Fisherman Urges Republicans to Confront Climate Change, by Noah Troop, Kassie Bracken & Mark Boyer, New York Times
• Baby Lobster: 7 Pictures and 7 Incredible Facts, by Tavia Fuller Armstrong, A-Z Animals

January 20

• My mom made waves as captain of her lobster boat. I’m proud to be her deckhand, by Maisie McNaughton, CBC First Person
• Phuket’s unique seven-colour lobster to soon get geographical indication product status, by The Nation Thailand, The Star

January 19

• Coastal Maine fishing communities rally after staggering storm damage, by Kaitlyn Budion, Maine Public
• Rogue wave hits Canadian lobster industry as U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size, by Paul Withers, CBC News

January 18

• Cape business upcycles crab and lobster traps, by CJ Haddad, Cape Coral Breeze
• North Atlantic right whale concerns impact the lobster industry. Here’s what to know., by Kathryn Gallerani, The Standard Times
• The lithium replacement to revolutionize EV batteries may just be shellfish, by Ben Stern, The Cool Down
• Major lobster plant in Escuminac, with 135 workers, temporarily closing, CBC News
• Largest deep-sea coral reef to date mapped by scientists off US Atlantic coast, by Christina Larson, Associated Press

January 17

• Artificial Reefs To Be Constructed To Boost Fish, Lobster Stock In Nevis’ Waters, by Observer News, The St. Kitts & Nevis Observer
• After decades of planning, Portland says it has enough money to begin harbor dredging, by Nicole Ogrysko, Maine Public
• Pot design a game changer for rock lobster industry, by Anastasia Savvas, InDaily

January 16

• Coastal communities in Maine left devastated by dual storms, by Carli Stewart,National Fisherman
• Nova Scotia jobs in jeopardy as redfish quota decision looms, by Paul Withers,CBC News

January 15

• Maine storms wash away iconic fishing shacks, expose long-buried 1911 shipwreck on beach, CBS News
• New England fishermen fighting ‘government overreach’ hope to catch a big win at Supreme Court, by Brianna Herlihy, Fox News

January 14

• Lincolnville landmark hopes to rebuild after devastating storms, by Will Wagner, WABI
• Down East fishing industry hit hard by devastating back-to-back storms, by Donovan Lynch, News Center Maine
• A group of herring fishermen may put a hook in the Biden administration’s power, by John Fritze and Maureen Groppe, USA Today
• Once nearly extinct, world’s ‘rarest insect’ now thrives in thousands in US, by Sneha Swaminathan, WION News

January 13

• Indonesia offers lobster larvae exports to Vietnam in exchange for investment, by Basten Gokkon, Mongabay
• Flooded Maine restaurant turns into playground for lobsters and crabs, by Jack Molmud, News Center Maine
• Rise in fishing-related shark deaths worldwide despite more anti-finning laws: study, by Heidi Petracek, Global News
• New fishing rules approved by state Board of Land and Natural Resources, Kauai Now News

January 12

• Battered by Storms, Maine Picks Up the Pieces and Braces for More, by Jenna Russell, New York Times
• Indonesia forges bilateral fishery cooperation with Vietnam, by Stinta A, Tegar Nurfitra & Azis Kurmala, Antara News
• Indonesia invites Vietnam to strengthen industrial cooperation, by Ade Irma J, Resinta Sulistiyandari & Arie Novarina, Antara News
• The season has passed, by Stephen Betts, The Courier-Gazette
• What are vertical ocean farms? Here’s how vertical farming works, by Megan Geall, The Cool Down

January 11

• Maine’s fishing infrastructure hammered by winter storm, by Paul Molyneaux, National Fisherman
• Hong Kong Intercepts Major Smuggling Operation Seizing Three Tonnes of Lobsters, by Geeta Pillai, BNN Breaking

January 10

• Lobster industry project to use whale tracking, reduce entanglement risk, by NF Staff, National Fisherman
• Maine lobster industry’s defamation lawsuit still pending as similar case in Massachusetts is dismissed, by Eric Russell, Portland Press Herald
• Businesses in Portland’s Old Port affected by ‘scary’ flooding, by Owen Kingsley, WGME
• Why Canada has ordered lobster pounds to kill all egg-bearing female lobsters, by Paul Withers, CBC News

January 9

• Massachusetts lobstermen drop lawsuit against California aquarium that told people to stop eating lobster, by Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald
• Maine lobster boat readied for its next 20 years, by Michael Crowley, National Fisherman
• Assembly member Jim Wood Introduces Bill to Make Dungeness Crab California’s Official Crustacean, Sierra Sun Times
• China launches “lobster eye” Einstein Probe to unveil mysteries of X-ray universe, by Andrew Jones, Space News

January 8

• Lobster fishermen claw at ‘unconstitutional’ boat tracking mandate, by Associated Press, Fox News
• Viral lobster fisherman Jacob Knowles, by Larry Potash & Robin Baumgarten, WGN 9
• Lobster fishers sue to block monitoring laws designed to help save a rare whale, News Center Maine
• Hope Floats in Maine, by Kea Krause, Sierra Club

January 7

• ‘When the Island Had Fish’ is a portrait of Vinalhaven through its most prominent industry, by John Alden, Portland Press Herald

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