Bangor Daily News new story by Abigail Curtis, BDN staff writer ROCKPORT, Maine — In the ocean off Rhode Island, fisherman Rodney Sykes has noticed far fewer cold-water species like lobster and more warm-water species like mahi-mahi and electric rays cruise by his boat in recent summers. “ There’s been an awful lot of changes,” Read More
Keep Maine Lobsters Cool
Carbon Emissions Hurting Lobster Industry
Group urging President Obama to increase regulations WMTW news story PORTLAND, Maine —During the summer season, Commercial Street is jammed with people who are buying Maine’s signature food – lobster. Some say carbon emissions could chase the lobsters away, but one lobsterman said there are bigger things to worry about with the driving force in Read More
President’s Climate Plan: Good for National Security and Lobsters?
Mary Kuhlman, Public News Service Public News Service news story PORTLAND, Maine – Extreme weather events, including heavy rains and flooding, are just the tip of the iceberg for potential effects of climate change in Maine, experts say. One climate-related concern is national security, according to military leaders, scientists and environmentalists. Judy Berk, Natural Resources Read More
Maine Lobsters Threatened By Climate Change, Scientists and Industry Warn
by Roxanne Palmer International Business Times news story Polar bears aren’t the only animals affected by climate change — a warmer world could soon be threatening that centerpiece of a New England summer: the Maine lobster. And what’s bad news for the Maine lobster is likely bad news for Maine. These tasty cockroaches of the Read More
State’s Lobster Industry in Hot Water
The Day (Connecticut) editorial Whether you’re visiting Connecticut or you live here, chances are you’ve enjoyed a steaming lobster served with drawn butter or a roll stuffed with lobster meat. You’ve ordered lobsters at a seafood shack like Abbott’s in Noank or Captain Scott’s in New London or bought some off the docks of Stonington Read More
Climate Change Threatens Maine’s Lobsters
by John Upton Grist news story Rising flood waters. Exotic disease outbreaks. Melting glaciers. Pfft, trifling details. Mere distractions from more tangible impacts of climate change. Because why? Because LOBSTERS! The Natural Resources Council of Maine, an environmental group, launched a campaign Tuesday that could grab the attention of some who might otherwise not see Read More
Learning about Lobsters
I get to do some pretty cool things thanks to my job at the Natural Resources Council of Maine. I met Bonnie Raitt at a concert on the eve of the removal of the Edwards Dam. NRCM was invited to work at a Phish concert (how cool is that?!) in Augusta. I met Senator George Read More
Maine Coalition: Less Carbon Pollution Would Benefit Lobsters
Businesses and environmentalists say Maine should endorse President Obama’s climate-change plan to help protect the state’s most important fishery. by North Cairn, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story PORTLAND — Drastically reducing carbon emissions would likely slow the negative effects of climate change on the Gulf of Maine lobster industry, leaders of the Maine Read More
Campaign: Pollution Threatens Maine Lobsters
by Don Carrigan WCSH-6 TV news story PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Leaders of Maine’s lobster industry joined restaurant owners and scientists on Monday to warn that global climate change poses a threat to Maine’s lobster population. They say climate change is causing the water of the Gulf of Maine to become warmer, and that Read More
