New Lobster Fishing Rules On the Way Amid Warming Waters
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Associated Press] BY PATRICK WHITTLE - September 11, 2017
PORTLAND, Maine — New restrictions are coming to southern New England's lobster fishery in an attempt to save the area's population of the crustaceans, which has dwindled as waters have warmed.
An arm of the interstate Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission voted on Tuesday to pursue new management measures to try to slow the decline of lobsters in the area. Management tools will include changes to legal harvesting size, reductions to the number of traps and seasonal closures to fishing areas.
The board's move was "a recognition that climate change and warming water temperatures play an increasingly role in lobster stocks, especially in southern New ...
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