Despite Record-Breaking Harvests, There Are Fewer Baby Lobsters in the Gulf of Maine
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Wiscassette Newspaper] - June 5, 2017
Orono, Maine — Despite an abundance of egg-bearing adult lobsters and record-breaking harvests, the number of young lobsters continues to fall in the Gulf of Maine.
That’s the 2016 update from the American Lobster Settlement Index (ALSI), an international monitoring program founded in 1989 by University of Maine marine scientist Rick Wahle.
The ALSI, a collaboration between fishermen and scientists, annually quantifies the population of newly settled American lobsters (Homarus americanus) at more than 100 sites in lobster-producing...
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