Despite anecdotal reports of strong lobster landings and prices this season, lobstermen have been struggling to find suitable bait to fill the bags used to lure lobster into their traps.

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Irons is working with counterparts in Maine to test the fish and the water they come from to make sure that, should they be trucked east for lobster bait, they do not bring exotic diseases to the ...

This surge has also meant an increase in the number of commercial runs, and the availability of alewives as lobster bait. But the alewife run lasts for only six weeks, and by June, lobstermen must ...

Making a living is harder now than ever before, as overhead costs for fuel, equipment, and bait steadily climb, while unprecedented lobster landings over the last several years have sent prices ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Interstate fishery managers will meet to discuss how to regulate the catch of a key lobster bait fish they say is at risk of heavy fishing. Herring is the most popular ...

PORTLAND, Maine -- Members of the fishing industry are cautiously optimistic about a plan to help fix a growing bait crisis that could threaten the New England lobster business. The lobster ...

but lobster bait fish numbers have crashed. Could oft-scorned salmon farms fill the gap? With the decline of herring, the most popular bait fish for lobster traps, lobstermen must find another source.

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Maine’s lobster fishermen will be able to use a new species of bait fish to try to get through a shortage of herring that has troubled the industry in recent years.