While Sweden has been seeking an EU ban on imports, the country’s spending on the delicacy has soared 523 percent.
Penelope Overton
Staff Writer
Penny Overton is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she has covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut, and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
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Lobster exporters looking to EU customers for help in averting ban
The American and Canadian lobster industries are looking to countries like Spain, Italy and France to help scuttle the Swedish proposal to label lobster ‘invasive.’
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The ‘lobster capital of the world’ faces a crucial question
Imposing a license wait-list divides those protective of a prized natural resource and others who see a growing fleet as key to a thriving regional economy.
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Sweden’s proposed ban on American lobsters clears first hurdle
The opinion of the European Union’s Scientific Forum on Invasive Alien Species sets in motion a broader review of the proposal.
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Amid signs of backlash over LePage, will tourists stay away from Maine?
Industry officials wait to see if the political storm and national attention damage Maine as recent controversies did in two other states.
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Gary Johnson tells Maine audience his Libertarian ticket offers voters ‘six-lane highway down the middle’
The candidate appears in Portland and Lewiston and says this week’s racially charged comments by Maine’s Republican governor should make voters reconsider their options.
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Lobstermen in Maine’s historically open zone vote to close their waters to newcomers
The call for a waiting list in Zone C, which includes Stonington and Vinalhaven, now goes to a local council and then state regulators.
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On trip to Greenland, Sen. King finds effect of climate change ‘amazing and scary’
He returns from a three-day fact-finding trip with plan to call for more U.S. icebreakers to clear Arctic trade routes.
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Pogy fishery reopens with strict new rules
Maine fishermen must limit their pursuit to Tuesday-Thursday, and net less than 120,000 pounds a week.
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Invasive green crabs are scuttling from dilemma to delicacy
Moleche, anyone? A group of Georgetown fishermen and others are getting expert advice from Venice, Italy, to turn a rampant threat to Maine’s fisheries into a marketable part of the solution.