The Boston Globe cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in a report about an upcoming Paris dinner between President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron. The two presidents were expected to have dinner at Le Jules Verne, the posh restaurant on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower which […]
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University of Maine research professor Joshua Stoll was interviewed for a Portland Press Herald story about North American lobster being traded along indirect and sometimes shadowy routes through Hong Kong and Vietnam to China. Stoll told the paper that the implications could be significant for the state’s lobster industry. He and Swedish researcher Beatrice Crona, […]
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Bob Steneck, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, was included in a Free Press article about the current state of Maine’s lobster industry. Dave Cousens, president of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, has been fishing out of South Thomaston for 50 years, according to the article. He started recording water temperatures from […]
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ABC News spoke with Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, for a report about a 22-pound lobster believed to be over 100 years old. Louie the lobster has been greeting customers at Peter’s Clam Bar in Hempstead, New York for 20 years, but the restaurant’s owner told ABC […]
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Smithsonian included information from the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute in an article about Maine’s current lobster boom. Maine has had a commercial lobster industry since the 1700s, according to the article, but today, the state is faced with an unprecedented glut of lobsters. In the early 20th century, once-abundant lobster had become rare, according […]
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Mainebiz quoted Bob Steneck, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, about discussions that took place at the 11th International Conference & Workshop on Lobster Biology and Management hosted by UMaine and Boston University. Scientists and lobstermen meeting in Portland agreed they need to share information and be more proactive about the […]
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The Portland Press Herald spoke with Rick Wahle, a research professor in the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, about a presentation that was made at the 11th International Conference & Workshop on Lobster Biology and Management hosted by UMaine and Boston University. Two Scandinavian biologists said American and European lobsters are crossbreeding and […]
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The Associated Press reported the number of young lobsters is declining in the Gulf of Maine despite years of record-breaking harvests, according to University of Maine marine scientist Rick Wahle. Wahle quantifies the population of baby lobsters in the Gulf at monitoring sites in New England and Canada every year. His American Lobster Settlement Index, […]
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The Portland Press Herald and WLBZ (Channel 2) covered U.S. Sen. Angus King’s address at the the 11th International Conference & Workshop on Lobster Biology and Management being hosted by the University of Maine and Boston University. Calling proposed cuts in federal science funding “unacceptable,” King told lobster researchers that data is the key to […]
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The Associated Press, Portland Press Herald and WABI (Channel 5) advanced the 11th International Conference & Workshop on Lobster Biology and Management taking place June 4–9 in Portland. Scientists will meet to discuss how a changing ocean environment and global economy is affecting the biology and business of lobsters, the Press Herald reported. More than […]
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