Lobster in the news

Press Herald quotes Bayer in article on PETA lobster campaign

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 interviews Stoll about recent lobster trade study

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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Undercurrent News quotes Wahle in article on tariffs, lobster industry

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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UMaine researchers to receive funding for lobster research, media report

The Portland Press Herald, Fish Information and Services, The Weekly Packet, The Ellsworth American and the Associated Press reported several research projects at the University of Maine will receive funding obtained by the Maine Department of Marine Resources from the sale of lobster license plates. The funding will go to five UMaine projects led by […]

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Bayer quoted, Lobster Institute cited in media reports on white lobster

Newsweek quoted Robert Bayer, the executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, and the Irish Times cited Lobster Institute statistics in reports on a white lobster caught in West Cork, Ireland. Only one in 100 million lobsters is white, according to the Lobster Institute. Fisherman Donagh O’Connor caught the white female […]

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Rhode Island Public Radio interviews Bayer about blue lobsters

Rhode Island Public Radio interviewed Robert Bayer, the executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, for a report on blue lobsters. A bright blue lobster was recently caught in Rhode Island and kept temporarily for public viewing at The Lobster Shack, a co-op market and restaurant in Newport, Rhode Island. It […]

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Media carry UMaine release about lobster trade research

EurekAlert, ScienceDaily and Technology Networks carried a University of Maine news release about a paper by researchers, including lead author Joshua Stoll of the School of Marine Sciences and the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, focusing on global trade related to the lobster industry. The paper maps the global trade routes for lobster, focusing on the obscured […]

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SimpleMost quotes Bayer in lobster facts article

SimpleMost quoted Robert Bayer, the executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, in an article on facts about lobsters. The article listed some less well-known facts about the crustaceans, including that they are a good source of several vitamins and minerals and that the Maine lobster industry began as early as […]

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