Steneck among speakers to challenge Sweden’s lobster ban effort, Press Herald reports
The Portland Press Herald reported Maine politicians, scientists and lobster industry representatives will speak out against Sweden’s bid to deem the American lobster as an invasive species, which would end a $150 million export market to the European Union. Robert Steneck, a marine biologist at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, is among the group that is scheduled to speak at a news conference Friday, Sept. 16 at Ready Seafood in Portland, according to the article. Earlier this month, the EU’s Scientific Forum on Invasive Alien Species decided that Sweden’s proposal to label the American lobster as an invasive species warranted additional review. American and Canadian scientists, including Steneck, had hoped to squelch the proposal with science, the article states.