What do you do if your business sells bait to lobstermen and suddenly your highest volume product — fresh herring — is in short supply? You adapt. In recent years Maine bait dealers have faced … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceWould you like to live next to a pig farm? Or a rock and gravel pit? Probably not — the smell or the noise would make your quality of life poor. That’s why municipalities use … Continue reading
Category: Management, PeopleThe Department of Marine Resources in July awarded six grants for research programs that will contribute to improved understanding of lobster habitat, stock assessment, monitoring, impacts of management actions on the fishery, and how those can be … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceThe fact that the Gulf of Maine is warming more quickly than the majority of the world’s ocean regions is alarming enough. But with that warming comes an equally threatening change to the Gulf’s waters, … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceImagine that a barrel of herring bait costs $500. Your bait is rationed to only a few trays per day. Several days each week there is no bait at all. On days when you can … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceHerring Updates 2018 Herring Landings The Atlantic herring fishery season opened on June 3 with four consecutive landing days per week. There is a 480,000 pound (12 trucks) weekly landing limit per vessel of which … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceIt’s hard to imagine but the well-being of animals as diverse as the giant North Atlantic right whale and the diminutive herring are dependent on a creature the size of a grain of rice: Calanus … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceOne of the most critical issues facing the lobster sector in North America is how we work together to manage fishery interactions with the North Atlantic right whales (NARW). It goes without saying that the … Continue reading
Category: Management, PeopleThe Department of Marine Resources (DMR) study of vertical lines used in the lobster fishery kicks off in full this month. The three-year project, funded by a $714,000 grant from the National Marine Fisheries Service … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceNothing chills the hearts of lobstermen more than the prospect of a bait shortage. Herring comprise the majority of bait purchased by Maine’s approximately 4,500 licensed lobstermen and even the whisper of a possible shortage … Continue reading
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