date:Apr 24, 2014
ces officials say the decline does not appear to be the product of overfishing, as some environmental groups contend.
The last three years have brought record hauls to Maines lobster industry, more than 350 million pounds by far the most for any three-year period according to state data that go back to 1880. The value of the catch has topped $1 billion for the first time.
Larger catches generally follow high levels, years earlier, of baby lobster settlement the process in which young lobster