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Smaller Lobster Catches May Mean Higher Prices

Maine’s lobster industry, the state’s most lucrative fishery, may foresee shrinking harvests and higher market prices, but such changes are likely several years away, lobstermen and dealers said Wednesday. An annual survey of young lobsters in 11 locations in the Gulf of Maine suggested that juvenile populations have fallen by more than half since 2007.

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