Maine Public interviewed Robert Bayer, the executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, for an article on the impacts the recently imposed steel tariff will have on the lobster industry, specifically on the production of traps. Nearly 100 percent of lobster traps are made of steel mesh, so the raw material […]
Read more
WMTW (Channel 8) cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in a report on a rare yellow lobster. The lobster was caught by the F/V Short Fuse, of Bremen, off the Maine coast June 20, according to the Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association, WMTW reports. The odds of catching a yellow lobster […]
Read more
The New York Times quoted Richard Wahle, a professor at the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, and James Acheson, a professor of anthropology at UMaine, in a story on climate change and its effects on the lobster industry. Climate change has caused the Gulf of Maine to warm since the 1980s […]
Read more
The Portland Press Herald interviewed Joshua Stoll, a research professor in marine sciences at the University of Maine, for an article on the impact that China’s proposed tariff on U.S. lobster could have on Maine. The 25 percent tariff would drive down prices of U.S. lobster, affecting everyone connected to the industry — which in […]
Read more
TIME magazine cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in an article on a cotton candy-colored lobster caught off the coast of Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick last November. The likelihood of catching a two-toned lobster is 50 in 1 million, and the odds of catching an albino lobster are […]
Read more
The Associated Press, Metro, Newsweek, Boston magazine, United Press International, WBZ (Channel 4 in Boston), WHDH (Channel 7 in Boston), The Washington Post, CBS News and Richland Standard cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in a report of a rare orange lobster discovered at a Massachusetts supermarket. Roche Bros. Supermarkets said workers at […]
Read more
Le Journal de Québec interviewed Robert Bayer, the executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, for an article about rare blue lobsters. Bertrand Desbois of the Raymond Desbois de Québec Fisheries reported catching a blue lobster for the second consecutive year near Anticosti Island, according to Le Journal. The lobsters’ rarity […]
Read more
A WABI (Channel 5) report on jewelry made from lobster shells quoted Bob Bayer, executive director of the University of Maine Lobster Institute. Bayer was contacted by Giada Giachino, an Italian student studying jewelry design in London, about using lobster shells as a replacement for endangered coral in jewelry, according to the report. Bayer sent […]
Read more
The Associated Press spoke with Rick Wahle, a research professor at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, for the article, “Lobster industry fears weaker shells but evidence is mixed.” U.S. lobster exports to Asian countries have increased exponentially this decade, and American shippers prefer lobsters with hard, sturdy shells to survive the journey, according […]
Read more
The Associated Press spoke with Deborah Bouchard, a microbiologist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for an article about lobster shell disease ticking up slightly in Maine over the last couple of years. The disease, often called epizootic shell disease, is a bacterial infection that makes lobsters impossible to sell as food, eating away […]
Read more