ALI Resources
Regional Lobster Research and Outreach Summit
Maine Sea Grant hosted the ALI’s second Regional Lobster Research and Outreach Summit in Portland, Maine, from February 12-13, 2024. The event brought the network together to share research updates, receive feedback from partners, and embark on new collaborative research and extension projects. Please click on the links below to access meeting materials for the 2024 Summit, as well as materials produced following our previous network meetings in 2022 and 2023.
- View the 2024 Summit Materials
- View the 2023 Summit Materials
- View the 2022 Virtual Meeting Materials
Interactive StoryMap Collection: A Fishery in a Sea of Change
American lobsters (Homarus americanus) are resilient creatures, but they are experiencing rapid changes to their ocean environment. In 2021, three researchers participating in the Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative (ALI) compiled the latest science explaining how warming waters in the Gulf of Maine impact lobsters at all life stages – from egg to adult.
Building upon this effort, team members from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Sea Grant pulled together information from 24 of the 31 research projects funded through the ALI into a collection of StoryMaps. These stories are organized around six thematic categories: reproduction, larvae and juveniles, growth, predation and pressures, socioeconomic shifts, and gear.
To view this information, check out the StoryMap Collection they have put together. The collection will be updated as the research teams generate results and will expand to include newly-funded projects as well.
Information on the North Atlantic right whale litigation process
- Opportunities for public comments on pending trap/pot fishery regulations to protect the North Atlantic right whale
- Understanding the North Atlantic right whale litigation
Collaborative Chats
Media Kit
Boilerplate language about the project
The Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program, is addressing critical knowledge gaps about American lobster and its iconic fishery in a dynamic and changing environment. The initiative, which began in 2019, supports both scientific research and a regional Sea Grant extension program in the Northeast U.S. Together, the research and extension components of this initiative will develop and share new knowledge and understanding with industry stakeholders and resource managers from Maine to New York.
