Thursday, July 26, 2007

US lobstermen embrace catch limits | csmonitor.com

Fishermen from Massachusetts to North Carolina are trying to keep lobster from becoming another fish story – the kind that ends up with stocks collapsing.

Borrowing a page from the thriving lobster industry in Maine, they've pushed through new rules that limit the size of the lobsters they catch. The idea is to protect the breeding stock for new generations of the shellfish.

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