In “The lobster trap,” The Boston Globe and the Portland Press Herald zoomed in on a small island central to Maine’s signature industry, smack dab in the crosshairs of global climate change. Reporters ...

Oct. 17—AUGUSTA, Maine — A judge on Saturday blocked the seasonal closure of nearly 1,000 square miles of water off the Maine coast to traditional lobstering in a massive victory for the industry over ...

PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) - Maine lobstermen will not have to stop fishing in an area slated to be off limits from October through January. According to a release from the Maine Lobstering Union, the ...

DEER ISLE, Maine — Fifteen-year-old Elliot Nevells spends his summers working on a lobster boat. The days are long and grueling, but he doesn’t mind. He comes from a family of fishermen and, like many ...

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Sep. 8—There is a way for both the lobster industry and the endangered North Atlantic right whale to prosper in the Gulf of Maine. There has to be. For sure, we didn't get any closer to a solution ...

The Maine Department of Marine Resources has been granted intervenor status in a federal lawsuit brought over new lobstering restrictions intended to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales.

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s proposal for protecting endangered right whales from entanglements in lobster gear would maintain the status quo for the number of trap lines in inshore waters where most ...

Every fisherman and every lobstering port along Maine’s 3,500-mile coastline is different. But as of Oct. 1, the midpoint in the industry’s peak season, most Maine lobstermen and the dealers who buy ...

Lobstering has a new face these days., as The Early Show Correspondent Melinda Murphy disovered when she went to Spruce Head, Maine, for today's assignment. She had expected some salty, ...