AP quotes Beal in article on Green Crab Working Summit
Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias, was quoted in an Associated Press article on the Green Crab Working Summit being held in Portland. Scientists, fishermen, chefs and others gathered at the event to brainstorm uses for the invasive crabs that are threatening New England’s shellfish industry, according to the report. There are billions of the crabs off New England’s coast, so finding new uses for them is worthwhile because they never will be eliminated, Beal said. The state’s shellfish industry also can find strategies to avoid them, such as farming, he said. “We can eat them, but we’re never going to eat them to death. We can trap them, but we’re never going to trap them to death,” Beal said at the summit. “So what do you do? We can adapt.” The Portland Press Herald, The Maine Edge, San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Courier, Panama City News Herald, Pueblo Chieftain and Daily News-Miner carried the AP article.