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ROCKPORT - Maine's lobsters thus far have dodged the disease outbreaks that have decimated the Long Island Sound fishery and diminished harvests in Massachusetts Bay in recent years.
But the "perfect storm" of symptoms that struck to our south could pose risks to the Gulf of Maine's multimillion-dollar industry unless they are better understood, a panel of researchers told fishermen at a daylong lobster health symposium at the annual Fisherman's Forum on Saturday.See the full content of this document
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Race On to Understand Lobster Diseases
"Don't breathe too big a sigh of relief yet," said Jan Factor of Purchase College, State University of New York.
Zoologists have been publishing papers about lobsters since the 1890s, yet the pricey crustaceans are still far more mysterious to science th...See the full content of this document
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