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In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018 photo, Kyle Bruns packs a live lobster for shipment to Hong Kong at The Lobster Company in Arundel, Maine. China is a major buyer of lobsters, and the country imposed a heavy tariff on exports from the U.S. in early July amid trade hostilities between the two superpowers. Exporters in the U.S. say their business in China has dried up since then. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Layoffs hit, prices lag as tariff pinches lobster industry

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressSeptember 15, 2018

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick, a carrier of Lyme disease. Preliminary indicators show Lyme disease abating during the summer of 2018 in New England, and public health authorities said they are finding fewer ticks in the environment. (CDC via AP, File)

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Lyme disease cases decline this summer

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressSeptember 10, 2018

Coca-Cola acquires Moxie, soda beloved in Maine

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressAugust 28, 2018

In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018 photo, three farmed scallops are seen in various stages of cleaning in Portland, Maine. A group of Maine aquaculture firms are looking to scale up the first serious attempt to farm Atlantic sea scallops in the United States. One of the groups is using Japanese farming equipment including a machine used cleaning the scallops. (AP Photo/Patrick Whittle)

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Mainers look to farms to boost scallops, a wild staple

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressAugust 24, 2018

A cooked lobster is served on a picnic table at McLoon’s Lobster Shack in Spruce Head, Maine, Thursday. New England’s lobster industry faces big new challenges in selling to Europe and China, but the trouble hasn’t yet caused prices to budge much for American consumers.

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All shell, no shock: Lobster prices strong, season picks up

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressJuly 22, 2018

FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2008, file photo, farm-raised Atlantic salmon move across a conveyor belt as they are brought aboard a harvesting boat near Eastport, Maine. Federal data say the United States imported more seafood in 2017 than at any point in its history, and the nation's trade deficit in the sector is growing. Some of the seafood items that American consumers are especially fond of, including salmon, tuna and shrimp, are heavily dependent on foreign imports to make it to U.S....

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US imports record amount of seafood in 2017

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressJune 24, 2018

Farm-raised Atlantic salmon move across a conveyor belt in October 2008 as they are brought aboard a harvesting boat near Eastport, Maine.

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Conservation groups’ pact will help save Atlantic salmon

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressMay 29, 2018

Local softshell clams are displayed at a Portland, Maine, fish market June 28, 2017. Maine’s clam harvest in 2017 reached its lowest point since at least 1950.

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Harvest of clams continues to dwindle in New England

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressApril 10, 2018

FILE - This 2013 file photo released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration made during the Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition, shows corals on Mytilus Seamount off the coast of New England in the North Atlantic Ocean. A federal court ruled in mid-March 2018 that a group of fishing organizations can move forward with a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate the first national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean. The groups sued to challenge the creation of the Northeast...

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Fishermen suit against Atlantic marine monument moves ahead

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressMarch 27, 2018

A man looks at a dead Minke whale on Cleveland Beach near Hubbards, Nova Scotia, Canada, Dec. 6, 2006. On Wednesday, the U.S. government announced there will be an investigation into a spate of minke whales deaths along the East Coast in 2017.

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NOAA to probe minke whale deaths

by Patrick Whittle Associated PressJanuary 31, 2018