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The Grey Zone is a 700-square-kilometre area of water long claimed by both Canada and the United States in the Gulf of Maine. At its heart is Machias Seal Island, on which Canada continues to maintain ...
The proponents of Maine's nearly $1 billion lobster industry ... to remove up to 50% of their fishing gear from the water during peak times of the year in key zones. Lobstermen will also be ...
Members of Maine's fishing community are calling on President Donald Trump to change policies they say are harming the state's lobstermen. "The Maine lobster fishery has, unfortunately, been no ...
PORTLAND (WGME) – President Donald Trump is looking to deregulate the U.S. fishing and lobster ... taken on the disputed gray zone, an area claimed and fished by Maine and Canada.
AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI ... a Class II lobster license with 800 tags costs ($1,203), a scallop dragger license ($243), a Zone 2 urchin dragger license ($312), or an elver license with two pieces ...
It also calls for the development of a comprehensive seafood trade strategy and a review of existing marine monuments, which are underwater protected zones, to see if ... To many in Maine’s lobster ...
Still, that doesn’t mean the marine mammals are absent from Maine lobster management zones. Many North Atlantic ... taken more steps toward sustainable fishing than many others along the eastern ...
Maine lobster fishermen received a Christmas gift from Congress ... The rules would have required lobstermen to create new seasonal non-fishing zones and further reduce their use of vertical ropes to ...
Jared Golden’s office, “Golden praises President Trump’s fishing ... and fishing zones. For example, as Rep. Golden notes, 93% of U.S. lobster landings come from the Gulf of Maine.