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 […]
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Maine Public spoke with Rick Wahle, a research professor at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, for the report, “New research shows ‘strong correlation’ between baby lobster decline, possible food source.” Joshua Carloni, a research scientist in New Hampshire’s Fish and Game Division, recently wanted to explore why, at a time when the waters […]
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Rick Wahle, a research professor at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, was quoted in the BloombergQuint article, “Maine’s booming lobster industry starts feeling some heat.” Lobster harvests already have collapsed in several states farther down the Atlantic coast, providing evidence for the warming-ocean-temperatures theory of the lobster boom, according to the article. The […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported on research conducted by Rick Wahle, a research professor at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, in an article about the recent decline of baby lobsters in the Gulf of Maine. Scientists want to know why the number of young lobsters is declining when their numbers at every other […]
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University of Maine research was cited in the Portland Press Herald article about Maine’s lobster industry seeing both its value and volume fall sharply in 2017. Landings declined 16 percent in 2017, and the boat value of the statewide catch fell 18.6 percent, according to the Maine Department of Marine Resources, which released its annual […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in the Mashable report, “The lobster emoji is getting an extra pair of legs.” In early February, Maine — famed for its lobsters — celebrated its victory in securing a lobster emoji, according to the article. However, when the official design was released, people pointed out that the lobster […]
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Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on the George Hale/Ric Tyler Show on WVOM The Voice of Maine. Bayer spoke about lobster handling laws in Switzerland. Bayer said based on years of studying lobster biology and the nervous system, he doesn’t think the crustaceans […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article about the popularity of live lobsters in Asia. Two-thirds of the live lobster sold overseas by the U.S. last year went to Asia, up 36 percent from the year before. The growth in the $231.9 million Asian market is welcomed by the Maine […]
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A recently published study by researchers from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, University of Maine and National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration was cited in a Gloucester Times article about the start of another benchmark lobster study. In 2015, data collected in an assessment of New England lobster stocks showed record-high abundance for the combined […]
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Robert Steneck, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, spoke with The Guardian for the article, “Is it wrong to boil lobsters alive?” “I’m not convinced they feel pain,” Steneck said. “There is no compelling case I’ve seen that suggests they feel pain. You don’t really see this level of concern for […]
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