Steneck mentioned in Congressional delegation release
Knox VillageSoup carried a press release from Maine Congressional delegation members who applauded the European Union’s consideration of scientific findings by University of Maine professor Bob Steneck and others in response to a Swedish request to ban the import of American lobsters into the EU.
Steneck was one of several experts from U.S. and Canadian who wrote a joint paper concluding there is no valid evidence that lobsters are an invasive species. The report refutes the claim from Swedish scientists that American lobsters pose a threat to the European environment.
“If the EU Scientific Forum finds the scientific evidence convincing, it will be then up to the Committee on Invasive Alien Species to take other factors, including economic considerations, into account before ruling on a proposed [American lobster] ban,” according to the release.
The Portland Press Herald ran a story about the EU asking Sweden to prove its claim that the American lobster is invasive.