The debate over whether lobsters feel pain — and the most humane way to cook Maine’s most famous export — has raged for years.
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PETA sues Maine Lobster Festival in an effort to stop steaming of 20,000 pounds of live lobster
The animal rights organization says lobsters can feel pain and that the city’s decision to allow the festival to steam them live is ‘a municipally endorsed spectacle of animal suffering.’
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Orange baby lobsters, the rarest of their kind, find a new home in Maine’s ocean
The odds of finding an orange lobster are 1 in 30 million. The University of New England just released 15 orange babies, no wider than a thumb and no longer than a pinky, into the wild to defy those odds.
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A huge lobster fought a Mainer in 1902 and almost won . . . so the story goes
Fisherman Charles McVane said a ‘monster lobster’ attacked him as he lay on a beach and he had to fight for his life.
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Deep-sea diver insists a huge lobster nearly killed him
‘I had never seen anything like it before. It seemed to be several feet high and about 8 feet long and it had on each side an enormous arm.’
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Scarborough lobsterman, son catch lavender, calico lobsters
A lobsterman from Scarborough said Monday that he does not intend to cook a pair of rare colored lobsters that his family caught this summer. Greg Turner, who operates Turner’s Lobster on Pine Point Road with his wife, Debbie, said he caught a lavender-colored lobster about three weeks ago while fishing outside Portland Harbor. His […]
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Lobster industry brainstorms market strategies
ROCKLAND — With overseas markets shaky at best, the leaders of Maine’s $1.4 billion lobster industry came together Wednesday to talk about how to drive up demand and get top dollar in the one market they can count on — the United States. This is a conversation that began long before China slapped a 25 […]
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Baby lobsters going deep for cold water
The discovery of baby lobsters in the deep waters off eastern Maine could be good news for the future of the U.S.’s most valuable fishery. Since 1989, scientists led by University of Maine professor Richard Wahle have looked for baby lobsters at 100 shallow-water test sites from Rhode Island to New Brunswick to monitor the […]
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Lobster exports to China tank in first month of tariffs
Richie Thurston sorts lobsters while processing orders for local restaurants at The Lobster Co. in Arundel on July 27. Last summer, The Lobster Co. was exporting $100,000 of lobsters a day to China, but with new tariffs placed on U.S. lobster imports to China, owner Stephanie Nadeau said exports to that country have completely dried […]
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Vesta Gillon
ORLANDO, Fla. — Vesta Gillon, 80, of The Villages, Florida, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 29. She was born Oct. 17, 1937, the daughter of George Jaffe (a WW II U.S. Marine veteran) and his wife Margarite (“Mike”), both school teachers, in Long Island, New York. Vesta attended college at Hofstra University in New York and spent […]