In 1984, Swan\u27s Island established Maine\u27s first official lobster trap limit, and three years later lobstermen are discovering that it has allowed them to catch as many lobsters with fewer traps. Technology had made lobstermen over-efficient and financially over-extended, and today almost every Swan\u27s Island lobsterman would like to see the limit statewide. Details
Unsustainable fishing simplifies food chains and, as with aquaculture, can result in reliance on a f...
An article on lobster fishing on the Maine coast that appeared in The American Neptune, Volume 14, I...
The Maine lobster industry is one of the most successfully managed fisheries in the world. Catches h...
The Swan\u27s Island lobster trap limit has been surprisingly popular with lobstermen, who realize t...
The Maine Legislature last year passed a law limiting lobstermen to 1,200 traps. Under the law, the...
Lobstering has become the healthiest of Maine\u27s fisheries, in part because of the decline of othe...
Lobster fishing is one of Maine’s most famous and important industries. In order for the industry to...
Maine lobstermen in 1994 hauled in more than 40 million pounds of lobster worth $100 million, indica...
A scientific assessment last year that showed lobsters are overfished in the Gulf of Maine, and upco...
Lobstermen from Chebeague and Long islands, Yarmouth and Falmouth have petitioned the state to limit...
Maine\u27s lobster catch has exceeded 30 million pounds twice during the last three years, and expec...
Memorandum from John F. Anderson, Chief Coastal Warden, to Ronald W. Green, Commissioner, on L.D. #3...
Unsustainable fishing simplifies food chains and, as with aquaculture, can result in reliance on a f...
Recent altercations among lobstermen in Portland Harbor have resulted in a Maine Marine Patrol curfe...
Maine\u27s lobster industry is very unusual in that it has come back from the brink of extinction to...
Unsustainable fishing simplifies food chains and, as with aquaculture, can result in reliance on a f...
An article on lobster fishing on the Maine coast that appeared in The American Neptune, Volume 14, I...
The Maine lobster industry is one of the most successfully managed fisheries in the world. Catches h...
The Swan\u27s Island lobster trap limit has been surprisingly popular with lobstermen, who realize t...
The Maine Legislature last year passed a law limiting lobstermen to 1,200 traps. Under the law, the...
Lobstering has become the healthiest of Maine\u27s fisheries, in part because of the decline of othe...
Lobster fishing is one of Maine’s most famous and important industries. In order for the industry to...
Maine lobstermen in 1994 hauled in more than 40 million pounds of lobster worth $100 million, indica...
A scientific assessment last year that showed lobsters are overfished in the Gulf of Maine, and upco...
Lobstermen from Chebeague and Long islands, Yarmouth and Falmouth have petitioned the state to limit...
Maine\u27s lobster catch has exceeded 30 million pounds twice during the last three years, and expec...
Memorandum from John F. Anderson, Chief Coastal Warden, to Ronald W. Green, Commissioner, on L.D. #3...
Unsustainable fishing simplifies food chains and, as with aquaculture, can result in reliance on a f...
Recent altercations among lobstermen in Portland Harbor have resulted in a Maine Marine Patrol curfe...
Maine\u27s lobster industry is very unusual in that it has come back from the brink of extinction to...
Unsustainable fishing simplifies food chains and, as with aquaculture, can result in reliance on a f...
An article on lobster fishing on the Maine coast that appeared in The American Neptune, Volume 14, I...
The Maine lobster industry is one of the most successfully managed fisheries in the world. Catches h...