maine lobster

Could lobster caught off New England get a designation that might prevent it from being sold by big businesses like Whole Foods? The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program, which classifies seafood sustainability, is weighing whether or not it should label the American lobster “red” for “avoid.” The program color-codes everything from tuna, to shrimp to oysters based on...

Seafood Watch, a program run out of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, qualifies everything by color – green for best choices, yellow means there are good alternatives, and red to avoid.

China has failed to live up to its promise to buy more Maine lobster under a deal that opened the door to an easing of a trade war under former President Donald Trump, Maine’s congressional leaders say. Maine’s lobster industry was hurt by retaliatory Chinese tariffs in 2018 and failed to see substantial export gains after China committed to...

Maine had a record total lobster haul value of $725 million last year, according to data from Maine’s Department of Marine Resources.

While the 2021 number of pounds caught is not a record, the price of lobster surged to $6.71 per pound and the total catch was worth $300 million more than the 2020 catch.