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Cooke wins approval for rosefish as alternative lobster bait in Maine

However, a much-anticipated decision on whether to allow silver carp from the state of Illinois to be used as bait has been postponed to allow for more testing

By Jason Huffman and Jason Smith | July 10, 2019 22:50 BST
Whole blackbelly rosefish
A drawing of whole blackbelly rosefish, a species caught off the coast of Uruguay, that Canada's Cooke plans to use as a lobster bait alternative in the US state of Maine.
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The US state of Maine will allow the use of Uruguayan-caught whole blackbelly rosefish sold by Canadian seafood conglomerate Cooke Inc. to be used as bait by its lobster harvesters.  [...]

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