Lobster Babies in the Gulf of Maine Declining; Portland Dealer Will Pay to Get an Answer
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Press Herald] By Penelope Overton - March 5, 2018
Their numbers are declining in Casco Bay, and Ready Seafood is willing to pay to find out if they're settling in deeper water where scientists hadn't been sampling.
Scientists want to know why the number of lobster babies in the Gulf of Maine is declining when their numbers at every other stage of their life cycle remain high.
That question is considered so important to the future of Maine’s $1.5 billion lobster industry that one of Maine’s 200 lobster dealers ...
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