FILE - In this May 2, 2016, photo, Bobby Kent pushes a baited lobster pot into the waters of Long Island Sound off Groton, Conn. Only a handful of lobstermen still work the waters due to a dwindling ...
Two decades after Connecticut’s lobster industry collapsed, federal funding has been approved to begin removing some of the hundreds of thousands of derelict lobster traps left on the floor of the ...
NORWALK, Conn. (WTNH) — When the lobster die-off happened starting in the late 90s, lobstermen say their livelihood was devastated. Over the years, some of the lobster traps were abandoned, while ...
Thousands of abandoned lobster traps have silently littered Long Island Sound for decades. Now, a local effort to locate them all has received a significant boost. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
Like unexploded ordinance left under long-forgotten battlefields, abandoned traps continue to endanger sea life on the bottom of Long Island Sound more than two decades after a die-off wiped out much ...
Several groups have worked together to remove more than 1,000 abandoned lobster traps in Long Island Sound. The Lobster Trap Recovery and Assessment Partnership is a project between The Maritime ...
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