AUGUSTA, Maine, Sept. 14 -- The Maine Democratic Party issued the following news release: Reporting from Maine Public reveals that key lobster industry stakeholders who suffered the most direct losses from Trump's failed trade war with China were left out of the administration's attempts to brush aside the damage he's inflicted on Maine's lobster industry. Live lobster dealers and processors, who process, ship, and pack lobsters called the federal aid package a "slap in the face" to be "not i  more

FREDERICK, Maryland, Sept. 15 (TNSGra) -- Hood College issued the following news: Hood College is a collaborating institution on a National Sea Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) for research on lobster larvae in Maine. The project has received $326,556 in funding with $108,575 to Hood College to survey the distribution of lobster larvae and their zooplankton prey in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank. This collaboration, led by the Atlantic Offshore Lobsterman'  more

ORONO, Maine, Sept. 17 (TNSJou) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: Integrating local norms and fishermen's knowledge into fisheries regulations helps increase trust in fisheries management institutions and can make it easier for co-management to work. That was a discovery of University of Maine researchers Kara Pellowe and Heather Leslie, who looked at the interplay between formal and informal institutions and the implications for the co-management potential of a Me  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Susan Collins sent a letter to President Trump urging the Administration to work with Maine and Canadian fisheries to find a solution to conservation issues that unfairly harm Maine's seafood industry. Lobstermen and fishermen who work in the Gray Zone--an area located approximately ten miles off the coast of Maine between the U.S. and Canada--are growing increasingly frustrated that their C  more

NARRAGANSETT, Rhode Island, Sept. 15 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Sept. 14: Rhode Island fishermen who've been negatively impacted by President Trump's trade wars should soon begin to see some much needed financial relief from the federal government. U.S. Senator Jack Reed says that eligible Rhode Island fishermen can apply for cash payouts of up to $250,000 each from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The federal assistance is part of a new $  more