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Study suggests US lobster harvesters could rely on fewer traps

'We found that Canadian fishers in the Gulf of Maine caught about the same amount of lobster using seven and a half times less effort than Maine fishers on the US side' -- Hannah Myers

By Undercurrent News | June 3, 2020 15:26 BST
Traps on the back of a lobster boat. Photograph by Jason Huffman.
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A study published last week in the peer-reviewed Marine Policy Journal suggests the US lobster industry could use fewer traps and still gain as much profit, the Bangor Daily News reports.  [...]

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