Addressing Emergent Threats to the Maine Lobster Fishery Through an Expanded and Improved Model Co-Developed by Lobster Harvesters

Principal Investigator: Esperanza Stancioff (UMaine Extension, Sea Grant, UMaine) Partners: Samuel Belknap (Climate Change Institute, Anthropology, UMaine); Aaron Strong (Marine Science, UMaine) Abstract: Maine’s iconic lobster fishery, providing 81% of Maine’s marine resource income (DMR 2015), faces the dual threats of an aging generation of lobstermen and a rapidly changing Gulf of Maine. Building on recent work that read more Addressing Emergent Threats to the Maine Lobster Fishery Through an Expanded and Improved Model Co-Developed by Lobster Harvesters