A potential change to the lobster industry would impact the allowable lobster catch size. Dozens of lobstermen who do not support the change spoke out at a Department of Marine Resources public ...
A controversial proposal looking to increase the minimum catch sizes for lobster has officially been repealed by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission ...
The Guinness World Records says the heaviest lobster ever recorded was an American one caught off Nova Scotia in 1977. It ...
A new regulation on catchable lobster size could significantly reduce lobster hauls this summer, according to industry members, with local lawmakers expressing concerns about its impact on the ...
The commission voted Tuesday to repeal key elements of a proposed increase to minimum allowable catch sizes for Gulf of Maine lobster. The announcement comes after officials in Maine and New Hampshire ...
If the American Lobster Board had not pulled the plug for ... also pushed back on the perception that all lobstermen stand against the size limits. "People are saying 'What are we going to do ...
Meant as a sustainability measure, the new regulations would increase the minimum size of a catchable lobster. Fishermen disapprove of the updated rule. CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire Governor ...
New Hampshire will continue to follow the existing regulations, Ayotte said, which require a lobster to be at least ... from our Seacoast that this minimum size increase will have a negative ...
The elimination of the new size standards will require the fishing industry to come up with strategies to protect the lobster population, said Patrick Keliher, chair of the commission’s lobster ...
Now, the lobster industry must find a different solution ... It would have effectively increased the minimum size of lobsters that fishermen could legally catch and sell as scientists and ...