Lobster in the news

AP cites Steneck in report on Sweden’s proposed lobster ban

The Associated Press cited a paper written by Robert Steneck, a marine biologist at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, in an article about the dispute over a Swedish proposal to ban imports of live American lobsters into the European Union. According to the AP, Sweden is digging in on the proposal after […]

ABC News cites Lobster Institute in report of blue lobster caught in Massachusetts

ABC News cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in a report about a bright blue lobster caught off the coast of Cape Cod. Oceanographers estimate that just one in two million lobsters is blue, according to the Lobster Institute. The coloring comes from an excessive amount of a particular protein […]

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