Thousands of abandoned lobster traps have silently littered Long Island Sound for decades. Now, a local effort to locate them all has received a significant boost. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
NEW LONDON, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut loves its seafood, and one of the all-time favorites is lobster. For decades, the crustaceans were caught off the coast of Connecticut. But, in the late 90s, ...
Lobster Landing opened for the season Thursday, but a long winter has made lobsters harder to come by this year.
Several groups have worked together to remove more than 1,000 abandoned lobster traps in Long Island Sound. The Lobster Trap Recovery and Assessment Partnership is a project between The Maritime ...
In the late 1990s lobsters in Long Island Sound and the men who fished them were kings. In 1998, inside 158,527 Connecticut traps, lobstermen pulled up 3.7 million pounds of the crustaceans worth more ...
STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) - Researchers have concluded pesticides used to prevent the spread of the West Nile virus were not a major factor in the 1999 lobster die-off in Long Island Sound. Scientists ...