Lobster in the news

Media cover launch of skin care company by UMaine grads

The Bangor Daily News, News Center Maine, New England Cable News (in Boston) and WABI (Channel 5) reported that University of Maine graduates Amber Boutiette and Patrick Breeding have co-founded a new small business in South Portland that is marketing a skin hydration cream made with lobster hemolymph. While Marin Skincare’s first commercial product was not developed at UMaine, Boutiette and […]

Read more

Steneck speaks with BBC about Canada’s decades-long lobster feud

Robert Steneck, a professor of oceanography, marine biology and marine policy at the University of Maine, spoke with BBC News about the Sipekne’katik First Nation’s lobster fishery, which it launched in September. The Sipekne’katik created the fishery, which operates outside of the Nova Scotia’s commercial fishery, in response to what the tribe says is a […]

Read more

Lobster Institute, Sea Grant offer chats highlighting collaborative research

The University of Maine Lobster Institute, Maine Sea Grant and the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) will partner for a series of free monthly Zoom chats featuring marine scientists, researchers and fishermen discussing collaborative efforts in the lobster industry. The webinar series, Successful Research Projects in the Lobster Industry, will feature discussions of research […]

Read more

Brewer speaks with Maine Public about lobstermen aid, politics

Mark Brewer, professor of political science at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for a story titled “Lobster Dealers, Processors Say They Were Left Out Of Federal Aid Deal — And Some Blame Politics.” According to the story, the federal government awarded Maine lobstermen $50 million to compensate for financial losses that resulted […]

Read more

WGME story features Lobster Institute’s calico lobsters facts

WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) incorporated information about calico lobsters from the University of Maine Lobster Institute in a story about a Kittery lobsterman catching two of them in one day. According to the institute, the chance of finding a live calico lobster is 1 in 30 million, rarer than spotting blue or live red […]

Read more

Local news report UMaine awarded $236,574 for lobster research

WABI (Channel 5) and News Center Maine reported the University of Maine has been awarded $236,574 as part of the Sea Grant Lobster Initiative funded by NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program. “Fishing in hot water: defining sentinel indicators of resilience in the American lobster fishery” was awarded $125,808. And “Incorporating changes in thermal habitat […]

Read more

Media report on lobster health tracking innovation

News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7), Mainebiz and New Atlas picked up a University of Maine news story about the Lobster Institute’s efforts to reduce mortality among lobsters as they move through the supply chain from capture to consumer. UMaine researchers are working with scientists at St. Joseph’s College and Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve and with lobster […]

Read more