Ready Seafood to help fund key lobster study

March 6, 2018

Ready Seafood of Portland is kicking in $75,000 a year to continue a University of Maine lobster larvae settlement study.

(Reprint from Mainebiz 3/6/2018) – The Portland Press Herald reported that the study, led by University of Maine research professor Rick Wahle, is designed to see if lobster larvae are settling in deeper water than they have in the past, which would suggest that the number of baby lobsters are not declining. But Maine Sea Grant funding of $150,000 for the study’s first two years has run out. So at the urging of Ready Seafood’s lobster biologist, Curt Brown, the company has stepped in. Read more here.