The Love Maine Lobsters’ Mobile Lobster Sales Business is an environmentally responsible way to provide a nice living for your family and your efforts help support a national marine aquarium grant program. Everyone Wins: the Independent Dealers who make nice profits, students since lobster sales support marine science education and the environment because the Maine lobster Industry is recognized as a model for sustainable fishing.

The American lobster fishery is Maine’s signature fishery. In 2009, the dockside value of Maine lobster was $185 million, with an estimated economic impact on the state economy of $500 million, supporting 5930 commercial lobster/crab licenses.

The role of lobstering dominates Maine’s fishing economy. A combination of lobster abundance and various changes in technology resulted in a shift from various inshore fisheries to a virtually single species fishery and a dependence on lobster that is unprecedented in Maine’s fishing history, so important to Maine’s way of life that lobster sustainability and management occurs at many levels.

Maine regulates the fishery through legislative action and Department of Marine Resources. The state participates in interstate management through the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service. Maine has delegated some authority directly to the lobster industry, which is one of the most significant examples of co-management in the country.

The state is divided into seven management zones each of which is divided into voting districts. Lobstermen elect representatives to a council that helps enact legislation designed to ensure the sustainability of Maine lobster, have the power to limit entry in the zone through an entry/exit ratio, and one member from each zone sits on the statewide Lobster Advisory Council.

Maine lobster regulations protect both juveniles and large lobsters through a dual gauge system that includes a minimum and maximum length and limit each boat to 800 traps. Lobstermen voluntarily notch the tails of egged-out female protecting them from harvest for several years ensuring an abundant female lobster population prime for reproduction. Furthermore, Lobster fishing is restricted to traps, and Maine regulates lobster traps dimensions so that vents release undersized lobsters.

The Maine Lobster Industry thrives because of an historical co-management effort that protects people, lobster and the environment. The Love Maine Lobsters’ Mobile Lobster Sales Business provides an unique opportunity to support marine aquarium education, while establishing a business in a proven industry that will last generation after generation after generation. Contact Love Maine Lobsters to learn more about this profitable opportunity, tell them that Touch-Tank sent you.

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