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Beals, Maine — Twenty-five students from 15 universities nationwide presented their summer marine research at the sixth annual Science for Economic Impact and Application (SEA) Fellows Symposium, held this year at the Downeast Institute (DEI) in Beals, Maine. More than 50 people, including students and their family members; researchers; local municipal leaders and other community […]
The Economist interviewed Robert Steneck, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, for an article titled “Maine relies on its marine life, but climate change will alter what that means.”
Credit: Robert F. Bukaty/AP/File Some House of Lords members (the UK’s upper House of Parliament) believe the bill should go further and include certain invertebrates. It would recognize that all shellfish feel pain. Speaking during the House of Lords debate in June, Baroness Janet Fookes said she was “shocked by some of the treatment of animals, such as lobsters, crabs and squid, in the way they have been stored and, very often, killed.” Maisie Tomlinson, co-director of Crustacean Compassion, a campaign group that lobbies for welfare rights for decapod crustaceans, said that...
The Washington Post interviewed Robert Steneck, a University of Maine professor of marine sciences, about calico lobsters. Steneck said it “might be close to correct” to say there is a 1-in-30-million chance of discovering a calico lobster. Smithsonian Magazine cited the Washington Post article in its report about calico and other unusual lobsters.
The lobster industry in Maine is big business pumping Maine's economy with $1 billion a year. When people around the world think Maine, they think lobster. It's been on two versions of our license plates, both of them red, because a cooked lobster is the way most people expect to see a lobster. As much as people love their lobster, for ages many have questioned the cooking process. As Mainers, we know that the most common way to cook a lobster is to boil it in a pot of water by dropping it in alive. That's something that some people have a problem with.