Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Food & Wine, NECN, The Daily Astorian and the Associated Press cited statistics from the University of Maine Lobster Institute in reports about a calico lobster. Caught off the coast of Pine Point in Scarborough, Maine by lobsterman Anthony Belanger, the lobster is being kept at Belanger’s workplace, Scarborough Fish & […]
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The Portland Press Herald, The Washington Post, the Bangor Daily News, U.S. News & World Report and the Mount Desert Islander quoted Robert Bayer, the former executive director of the University of Maine Lobster Institute, in reports on a restaurant in Southwest Harbor that has tested a method of using marijuana to sedate lobsters before boiling them. […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Richard Wahle, a professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences and director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, for an article about his recent research on settlement of juvenile lobsters. The American Lobster Settlement Index, a program hosted by Wahle’s lab, has monitored the number of baby lobsters that […]
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The Portland Press Herald quoted Bob Bayer, the executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, in an article on the proposal by the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to install a roadside memorial for the lobsters that died in an Aug. 22 seafood truck rollover on Route […]
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The Portland Press Herald quoted Rick Wahle, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, in an article on the transgender community claiming Maine’s new lobster emoji to represent them online. The British group Lobsters Against Transphobia is campaigning for the Unicode Consortium to approve a pink and blue flag […]
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The Portland Press Herald, Fox News and Q106.5 cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in reports on a cotton candy-colored lobster at a Portland restaurant. The female lobster, nicknamed “Blue Betty,” was part of a shipment to Scales Restaurant and kept in their dining room viewing tank. Co-chef Travis Olson and his […]
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The Portland Press Herald spoke to Robert Bayer, the executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, for an article about a recent poster campaign in the Portland International Jetport by animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). PETA bought a month’s worth of advertisements at the jetport […]
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Fishermen’s Voice interviewed Joshua Stoll, an assistant research professor with the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine and the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, for an article about Stoll’s recent research on lobster trade. The study maps global trade routes for lobster and analyzes their effects on the relation between those who […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported Rick Wahle, a professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, and UMaine graduate student Maura Niemisto, are collaborating on research with senior research scientist David Fields at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay. The lab houses a “time machine” device that allows […]
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Undercurrent News quoted Rick Wahle, a research professor at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, in an article on the impact of tariffs on Maine’s lobster industry. Tariffs and the related trade war with China will likely hurt the industry, especially if harvest is decreased. The harvest in 2016 was a record high, while […]
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