Pershing Speaks with Morning Sentinel About Project to Forecast Lobster Season
Andrew Pershing, an associate professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences and researcher at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, was interviewed for a Morning Sentinel article about a research proposal from the institute and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences that was chosen to compete for NASA funding. The project aims to use Earth-system data to predict the movements of key species in the Gulf of Maine and provide seasonal forecasts for the lobster industry. Pershing, who is the project’s senior scientist, said providing predictions about the timing and volume of lobster landings could help the industry avoid a repeat of the early glut of soft-shell lobsters in 2012 that drove lobster prices down.