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theora55 t1_iy3lgdl wrote

Reply to comment by BriefausdemGeist in NOAA be like by TheDeadPlant

Maine has had more rigorous standards for minimum lobster sizes and not taking egg-bearing lobsters than neighboring Canada and New Hampshire. Not sure about now, but this was the case in the past. Lobsters don't stop at boundaries, so this was beneficial to Canada & NH lobster fishers.

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BriefausdemGeist t1_iy3ngt3 wrote

Maine lobstering has very stringent regulations now, but as you also point out, those regulations didn’t affect lobstering from other jurisdictions. Unless they only lobstered in Maine’s maritime jurisdiction - a cartographical line no lobster recognizes - whatever their quotas were or were not still affects the stability and viability of the overall population

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