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Fishing failure and success in the Gulf of Maine: lobster and groundfish management

James M. Acheson; Roy Gardner · Maritime Studies, 13, article 8 · 2014

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Type: Article
Author: James M. Acheson; Roy Gardner
Identifier: DOI 10.1186/2212-9790-13-8
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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DisputedThe causes of Maine's lobster boom (over 50 million pounds landed every year since 2000) are uncertain: Acheson and Gardner cite August water temperature, the scarcity of large groundfish that eat small lobsters, and a conservation ethic among fishermen that backed effective rules.