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A Meeting Place For Fish, Downeast Fisheries Trail
A Meeting Place For Fish, Downeast Fisheries Trail
Maine Sea Grant Publications
The convergence of land, river, and sea creates a rich habitat for many animals, including fish such as alewives, Atlantic salmon, and American eels.
American Lobster Settlement Index Update 2012, Richard Wahle, Phoebe Jekielek, Charlene Bergeron
American Lobster Settlement Index Update 2012, Richard Wahle, Phoebe Jekielek, Charlene Bergeron
Maine Sea Grant Publications
In a year that might be remembered as the one that brought climate change close to home for the lobster industry, lobster larvae in 2012 continued to settle mostly in the patterns we've seen before. The ocean heat wave that broke all the records and triggered an early shedder season does not seem to have had a corresponding positive effect on lobster settlement. Once again Maine's lobster fishery boasted another year of historically high lobster landings, just as southern New England lobstermen still struggle with how to manage the fishery in a world of shell disease and dwindling recruitment. This …