Bayer Interviewed on Lobster Finding
Comments from Bob Bayer, a UMaine professor of animal and veterinary sciences and the executive director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, were included in a Bangor Daily News article about a lobster aquaculture breakthrough discovered by Brian Beal, a professor at the UMaine System campus in Machias and director of research at the Downeast Institute. Beal told the BDN he has learned how to grow lobsters in a protected environment until they are several inches long and can be released into the wild. Bayer said there might not be much immediate demand for Beal’s findings in Maine, but there might be in southern New England, where lobster stocks have declined dramatically in recent years.
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