Maine Sea Grant College Program staff and University of Maine scientists will advance a multimillion-dollar NOAA Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative (ALI), which has announced a second round of research funding. The newly funded research will continue to address critical gaps in knowledge about how American lobster (Homarus americanus) is affected by environmental change in […]
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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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Editor’s note: Story updated Sept. 1. Miniature fitness trackers for lobsters and devices to monitor the quality of their shipping conditions are being prototyped as part of an initiative to reduce stress points and improve survival in the lobster supply chain for the Maine lobster industry. The University of Maine Lobster Institute leads the initiative […]
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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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The documentary “2020 Race to Save the Planet: Swing States” premieres at 9 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. CT June 17 on The Weather Channel. Focused on how climate change is perceived in U.S. swing states, the documentary features the University of Maine’s Rick Wahle, director of the Lobster Institute and a research professor in the […]
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Been bingeing movies? Put this one on your list: “Lobster War: The Fight Over the World’s Richest Fishing Grounds.” The award-winning film includes Rick Wahle, research professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine. The feature documentary, which won “Best New England Film” at the 2018 Mystic Film Festival, is about […]
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Two new studies published by University of Maine scientists are putting a long-standing survey of the American lobster’s earliest life stages to its most rigorous test yet as an early warning system for trends in New England’s iconic fishery. The studies point to the role of a warming ocean and local differences in oceanography in […]
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University of Maine professor Ivan Fernandez has been appointed to serve on the Maine Climate Council, and will serve as co-chair of the Science and Technical Subcommittee. Numerous other experts from UMaine and University of Maine at Machias have been invited to serve on the Science and Technical Subcommittee, as well as working groups. Climate […]
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Mount Desert Islander cited the 2018 update of the American Lobster Settlement Index released by Rick Wahle, professor and director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, in the article “Downturn in lobster numbers could be coming.” Studies of the settlement of post-larval baby lobsters at a variety of locations off the coast […]
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