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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The Enterprise and Fox News mentioned the University of Maine Lobster Institute in their stories about 13-year-old Adam Carpenter trapping a blue lobster in Plymouth Bay. According to the Lobster Institute, about one in 200 million lobsters is blue. “I might give it to the New England Aquarium. They’ll give it a good home,” Carpenter […]
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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 […]
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Mark Brewer, a professor of political science at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for a news story titled “‘That Sealed the Deal’ — Trump Hopes Attention Paid to Lobster Industry Will Win An Electoral Vote.” Brewer says the president’s actions involving the lobster industry might not only affect how lobstermen vote in […]
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Richard Wahle, research professor at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center and founder of the Lobster Settlement Index, was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article highlighting the changing movement patterns of lobster in New England and the impact on the fishery.
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The Kennebec Journal quoted University of Maine Lobster Institute statistics in a story about a blue lobster found in a shipment to Hallowell Seafood & Produce. The crustacean was caught off Cabbage Island near Boothbay Harbor, and will be returned to the ocean or donated to an aquarium.
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WABI (Channel 5) and the Portland Press Herald reported on a University of Maine study that found lobsters living in ocean water as warm and acidic as the Gulf of Maine is expected to be by the end of the century will be less able to cope with stress or fight off disease. While higher water […]
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