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Lobsterman Bill Matthews hauls in a trap while fishing last month off Kennebunkport, Maine. Maine’s lobster haul last year was worth almost a half-billion dollars at the docks.

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Lobster fishing group withdraws support of whale agreement

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressSeptember 5, 2019

A North Atlantic right whale is seen in Cape Cod Bay off the coast of Plymouth in March 2018.

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Scientists alarmed in wake of six right whale deaths

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressJuly 3, 2019

A marine biologist holds a young lobster on Friendship Long Island, Maine. Data released for 2018 show an uptick of baby lobsters off some parts of Canada while they are dwindling off the New England coast.

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Baby lobster numbers spell trouble for shellfish population

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressJune 30, 2019

A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth in March 2018. Maine lobstermen will be giving up half the vertical trap lines in the Gulf of Maine to give the endangered species a better chance.

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Changes to Maine lobster fishery to help whales might arrive in 2021

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressJune 28, 2019

Motorcyclists participate in a "Blessing of the Bikes" ceremony in Columbia, N.H., Sunday, June 23, 2019. While such ceremonies are periodically held, the Sunday event held special meaning for the motorcycle community. Bikers and veterans are reeling from a crash, in which a pickup truck towing a flatbed trailer collided with a group of 10 motorcycles Friday evening. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

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Bikers bid adieu to 7 victims of NH crash

by Lisa Rathke Associated Press, and Patrick Whittle Associated PressJune 23, 2019

Dr. Rosalind Rolland, director of ocean health and a senior scientist in the research department at the New England Aquarium in Boston, poses on a boat next to a southern right whale during an expedition to the Auckland Islands, an archipelago of New Zealand.

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Studying baleen may reveal whales’ health, stress levels

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressMay 29, 2019

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2015, file photo, kelp grows on spools of twine in an aquarium at a lab at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. The lab provides baby seaweed to populate a growing number of commercial farms. Members of Maine’s seaweed industry say a court ruling could dramatically change the nature of the business in the state, which has seen the harvest of the gooey stuff grow by leaps and bounds this decade. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

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‘Super’ seaweed future in doubt after court ruling

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressMay 6, 2019

Members of the Maine State Police stand during the funeral procession for Maine State Police detective Ben Campbell Tuesday, April 9, 2019, in Portland, Maine. Campbell was helping a motorist last week when he was struck and killed by a wheel that had dislodged from a logging truck. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

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Thousands mourn Easthampton native Benjamin Campbell, Maine state trooper killed on duty

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressApril 9, 2019

Deep ruts are left in a muddy dirt road in East Montpelier, Vt., Thursday. It’s muddier and bumpier this year than most since many parts of the northern New England states had especially rainy and snowy winters.

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Lots of ruts to get stuck in this mud season

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressMarch 25, 2019

FILE-In this July 25, 2018 file photo, lobster boats head out to sea off of South Portland, Maine. Maine officials say lobstermen brought more than 119 million pounds (54 million kilograms) of the state's signature seafood ashore in 2018, with the second-highest value on record. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, FILE)

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Maine’s lobster catch, value grew in 2018

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressMarch 2, 2019