PORTLAND, Maine — Top scientists and commercial fishermen agreed Wednesday that high lobster populations off the Maine coast could set the state’s fisheries up for catastrophe.
Researchers from as far away as California and Washington were expected to converge Wednesday on Portland for a first-of-its-kind two-day conference with academics, fishermen, government officials and lawmakers to discuss climate change and its effect on New England fisheries.
The event was hosted at the Portland Company complex by the Rockland-based Island Institute.
The takeaway message from the conference’s initial presentations: As tempting as lobster is, fishermen must diversify their catches.
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