Overall sales rose 5.3% in 2016, down from a 46% jump for the previous year, while sales by small caregivers appear to be surging.
Penelope Overton
Staff Writer
Penny is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
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New rules aim to boost herring supply prized as lobster bait
Quotas and limiting fishing to certain days are among restrictions designed to help Maine and neighboring states maximize opportunities for small-boat fishing fleets.
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Coast Guard station area proposed as burial site for contaminated soil from harbor
Today, a drilling barge is scheduled to begin a two-day test to determine if the site can handle 300,000 cubic yards of dredged sediment.
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Regulators vote to allow lobstering in Gulf of Maine coral protection zones
The exemption, which must be approved in June, is granted after pleas from Maine lobstermen who say a trap ban in the fertile grounds would cost them millions.
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Lobster wharf on Bailey Island to be sold at auction
The quarter-acre property includes the 187-foot commercial pier, a bait shed and a small office.
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Trapped by heroin: Lobster industry struggles with its deadly secret
Maine lobstermen are plagued by opioid addiction, leading to deaths, ruined lives and even fishing violations to pay for the habit. Some in recovery also recognize the challenge: Getting help to an intensely independent breed that rarely asks for it.
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Many in Stonington, Maine’s lobstering capital, keep quiet about drug problem
But a few people – worried about heroin’s impact on the local economy, the fishery and the addicts themselves – believe it’s time to speak out.
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Heroin took hold of 3 lobstering brothers — and didn’t let go of one
The father of Sam Stevens lets his son’s addiction go public, signaling that an insidious threat lurks within the Machias community.
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Speed limit lowered to 65 mph on stretch of I-295 starting today
The previous, 70 mph limit had contributed to an almost 30% percent increase in crashes between Falmouth and Topsham during the two years it was in effect.
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Lobster industry fears lost sales from ramped-up Canadian exports
A weak loonie coupled with disappearing tariffs helps Canada sell more lobster in the EU.