ASSOCIATED PRESS • October 26, 2020
The American lobster population is in decent shape off of Maine and Canada, but continues to decline in southern New England, according to an assessment by an interstate regulatory group. The stock assessment released by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s American Lobster Board lines up with previous analyses of the lobster fishery. Lobster fishermen pulled in record catches of the crustaceans off Maine in the last decade, but the catch collapsed off more southern states such as Connecticut. American fishermen caught more than 126 million pounds of lobster last year. More than 100 million of those pounds came to the docks in Maine.