Proposals to protect right whales, which will be unveiled next week, could hobble Maine’s most lucrative fishery.
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Lobster industry blasts proposed regulations intended to protect whales
Officials say scientific data doesn’t support the proposals.
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Defenders of endangered right whales pursue limits on aquaculture
The threat of entanglements extends beyond the lobster industry, say advocates, pointing to Maine’s rapidly growing farmed-fisheries sector.
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Proposals to save right whales could drastically change lobstering
Regulators will meet next week to consider actions to preserve the threatened species, including a one-month closure of fishing zones and outlawing certain gear.
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Herring quota’s sting may lead Maine lobstermen to sit out next spring
Regulators’ proposal to slash the yearly figure by 80 percent has fishermen wondering if they’d be working just to cover bait costs.
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Maine lobstermen say move to avert collapse of herring fishery will have dire consequences
Trawling bans and quota reductions being proposed by regulators will result in bait shortages that will cause prices to skyrocket, the lobstermen say.
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Ready Seafood gets final permit for Maine’s largest lobster processing operation
The company looks to break ground Oct. 1 on the $10 million facility in Saco, with plans to hire as many as 50 more employees to help handle as much as 100,000 pounds of lobster a day.
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Maine dealers say China is further inflating prices on U.S. lobster as part of tariff war
Tariffs are being levied based on higher-priced Canadian lobster, they say, adding ‘salt on the wound’ of plunging U.S. lobster exports to Chinese markets.
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Discovery of immature lobsters in deep Down East waters may be good news for industry
Researchers feared that declines in the numbers of baby lobsters found in warmer, shallow waters might presage a population bust, but the young may merely be moving to deeper habitat, a UMaine professor says.
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U.S. lobster exports to China tank in the first month with new tariff
The data is the first to reflect the impact of a trade war between the U.S. and China, which had been a growing market for Maine lobster.