Maine Lobster Industry
Jan 29, 2024 07:56:18 #
The Maine lobster industry was devastated by storms in January. A great deal of equipment was destroyed by rough, fast-rising water. I'm glad that lobsters aren't a regular item on my menu because I suspect prices are going to rise quickly. In the meantime, the lobster population will increase, so there is a silver lining to the cloud. Aside from the lobster industry, all of Maine's coast was hit hard, and it sustained major damage.
STONINGTON, Maine — When back-to-back storms hit in mid-January, almost nothing in this picture postcard of a New England harbor was spared. In the heart of the state’s iconic lobster industry, the docks and leggy piers that lent Stonington harbor its scenic charm were destroyed, and the infrastructure that supports a vital industry took a massive hit.
The devastation felt by Maine’s lobster industry was an alarming warning that climate change is happening so fast, and with such seemingly cruel precision, that the scale of recovery may need to be greater than anyone had realized.
“It just came up shockingly high,” said Allison Melvin, of Greenhead Lobster, who watched as the ocean surged several feet in what seemed like a matter of seconds, buckling a conveyer belt that normally extends from its wharf down to the dock below, inundating forklifts, and lifting a tractor trailer truck used for refrigeration.
STONINGTON, Maine — When back-to-back storms hit in mid-January, almost nothing in this picture postcard of a New England harbor was spared. In the heart of the state’s iconic lobster industry, the docks and leggy piers that lent Stonington harbor its scenic charm were destroyed, and the infrastructure that supports a vital industry took a massive hit.
The devastation felt by Maine’s lobster industry was an alarming warning that climate change is happening so fast, and with such seemingly cruel precision, that the scale of recovery may need to be greater than anyone had realized.
“It just came up shockingly high,” said Allison Melvin, of Greenhead Lobster, who watched as the ocean surged several feet in what seemed like a matter of seconds, buckling a conveyer belt that normally extends from its wharf down to the dock below, inundating forklifts, and lifting a tractor trailer truck used for refrigeration.
Jan 29, 2024 07:58:19 #
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Jan 29, 2024 08:55:34 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Lobsters were once food for the poor.
Right! They were fed to prisoners in the Massachusetts colony. A friend compares eating lobsters to eating spiders.
Jan 29, 2024 10:02:33 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Lobsters were once food for the poor.
We took a cruise to st John’s, BC. The tour guide on an excursion we took told us that same thing. Lobster was so plentiful that kids tried to hide the fact that their parents gave them lobster sandwiches because they were so embarrassed.
Jan 29, 2024 10:05:47 #
Jan 29, 2024 10:19:08 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Right! They were fed to prisoners in the Massachusetts colony. A friend compares eating lobsters to eating spiders.
Lobster good,
spiders not so much....
Jan 29, 2024 10:20:14 #
Indi wrote:
We took a cruise to st John’s, BC. The tour guide on an excursion we took told us that same thing. Lobster was so plentiful that kids tried to hide the fact that their parents gave them lobster sandwiches because they were so embarrassed.
Wow, now they are expensive!
Jan 29, 2024 10:40:23 #
Indi wrote:
We took a cruise to st John’s, BC. The tour guide on an excursion we took told us that same thing. Lobster was so plentiful that kids tried to hide the fact that their parents gave them lobster sandwiches because they were so embarrassed.
Funny!
Jan 29, 2024 10:41:06 #
Longshadow wrote:
Wow, now they are expensive!
Right, and when you buy a lobster roll, you have to wonder how much of that is lobster and how much is other stuff.
Jan 29, 2024 10:43:56 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Right! They were fed to prisoners in the Massachusetts colony. A friend compares eating lobsters to eating spiders.
And they couldn't feed them lobster more than a couple days a week because it was considered "cruel and unusual punishment "
Jan 29, 2024 10:50:48 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Right, and when you buy a lobster roll, you have to wonder how much of that is lobster and how much is other stuff.
Well, the lobster rolls I get in Maine are just lobster.
And roll, with butter.
$20 last time I got one.
Jan 29, 2024 11:00:55 #
Jan 29, 2024 12:12:25 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Right, and when you buy a lobster roll, you have to wonder how much of that is lobster and how much is other stuff.
Not if you go to Red's!!!
https://www.redseatsmaine.com/
Jan 29, 2024 12:20:17 #
Bmarsh wrote:
And they couldn't feed them lobster more than a couple days a week because it was considered "cruel and unusual punishment "
Well, they are high in cholesterol.
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