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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The Guardian interviewed Esperanza Stancioff, climate change educator for University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant, about changes in the lobster industry. Stancioff said that over time the center of Maine’s lobster fishery has shifted from Thomaston to Stonington and Canada. Lobsters also have been moving farther offshore, requiring fishermen to obtain an […]
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News Center Maine reported on a documentary created by the University of England about the effects of climate change on Maine that features Richard Wahle, a research professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences and director of the Loberst Institute at UMaine. “Reckoning with Climate Change in the Gulf of Maine,” which […]
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Mass Live cited Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in its article about a Massachusetts restaurant that found a rare orange lobster. Arnold’s Lobster and Clam Bar, Eastham, found the lobster during one of its wholesale lobster deliveries, and donated it to a local aquarium, according to the report. The restaurant found a blue […]
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Maine Public interviewed Rick Wahle, a research professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences and director of the Lobster Institute at UMaine, about two new studies of lobsters along the northeastern Atlantic coast. Wahle is an author of both studies, which look at possible reasons for the dramatic rise in Gulf of […]
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The Portland Press Herald, Mainebiz and Associated Press cited University of Maine research in an article about the future of Maine’s lobster industry. A new study led by UMaine alumnus Noah Oppenheim, executive director of San Francisco’s Institute for Fisheries Resources, predicts lobster landings will fall 20–40% in the next four to five years in […]
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