Lobsters
Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press Mar. 26, 2021 03:35 PM EDT
Hearst Connecticut Media. March 24, 2021. Editorial: High costs for prison phone calls must end In another entry in...

Maine fisheries had productive '20 despite pandemic

Mar. 26, 2021 03:15 AM EDT
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's combined commercial fishing industries managed to top $500 million in value last year despite challenges caused by the...

FILE- In this Sept. 21, 2020 file photo, a sternman checks a lobster while fishing off South Portland, Maine. The Maine Department of Marine Resources said Wednesday fishermen caught more than 96 million pounds of lobsters in 2020. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
Happy tail: Maine lobstermen crack a good year despite virus

By Patrick Whittle Mar. 24, 2021 10:53 AM EDT

FILE- In this Sept. 11, 2018, file photo, lobsters are packed at a shipping facility in Arundel, Maine. America's lobster industry recovered from the Trump trade war to have a good 2020, but it is approaching one of the busiest times of the year with trepidation because of coronavirus. Chinese New Year shipments will be complicated by the virus this year. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
Lobster biz braces for Chinese New Year impacted by pandemic

By Patrick Whittle Feb. 08, 2021 01:02 AM EST

FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2011, file photo, David Greenham, of Readfield, Maine, reacts after taking a plunge with about 100 others participating in the annual Polar Bear Plunge at the East End Beach in Portland, Maine. The tradition of taking an icy plunge into the ocean to ring in 2021 is going virtual during the coronavirus pandemic. (John Patriquin/Portland Press Herald via AP)
Virtually shivering: Crowded Jan. 1 polar plunges put on ice

By David Sharp Dec. 30, 2020 08:18 AM EST

FILE-In this Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, file photo, lobsterman Jason Joyce speaks at a campaign rally for President Donald Trump at the harbor at Camp Ellis in Saco, Maine. Joyce also spoke at the Republican National Convention, touting Trump's efforts to help the state's lobster industry. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Lobster biz hopes for stability after tumultuous Trump era

By Patrick Whittle Nov. 22, 2020 10:39 AM EST

Border closure can't keep grandparents from Canadian wedding

Oct. 19, 2020 04:33 PM EDT
ST. STEPHEN, New Brunswick (AP) — With the border closed, a Canadian couple still found a way for their grandparents from Maine to see their waterfront wedding...

FILE - In this March 28, 2018 file photo, a North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass. A judge ruled on Thursday, April 9, 2020, that the federal government had failed to adequately protect endangered whales from lobster fishing activities. Environmental groups had sued the U.S. government with a claim regulators' failure to prevent the North Atlantic right whale from harm was a violation of the Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
Judge: Failure to help whales skirts Endangered Species Act

By Patrick Whittle Apr. 10, 2020 11:04 AM EDT