Globe Today: Downsizing lobster catch

Title: Globe Today: Downsizing lobster catch

Published: Tue, 21 Apr 2009

Description: (NECN: Boston, Mass.) - Putting fewer lobster traps in the cold waters off Maine may still be able to catch the same number of crustaceans. The idea could reduce fishermen's costs at a time when the $300 million industry is confronting ma...

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" Now the globe today on NEC yeah. Analysts get a look at some of the stories the Boston Globe is working on today joining me from hello mister deputy city editor Mike hello I'm Mike good morning Leslie. May lobster -- facing new challenges tell us about that."

" That's right -- to being asked to -- lasts state officials thinks there's so much lobster fishing going on that they need to reduce the number of pots on the ocean floor right now they're about. Two point five million pots and the thinking is they can catch more with less points more laps to go in each pot. It will also help conserve lobster and help protect white whales right whales are beginning cotton the lines connected to these traps I think in the last two decades and 45 whales have been caught in those traps and it's met with a disastrous consequences. -- already and that Hollywood heads to Marmol had bullets right Brian McCarthy has a house he's the Kelly's roast beef owner. And he is a beautiful house in Marblehead and the last four days Hollywood has set up shop there the movie the company man is filming Tommy Lee Jones and isn't stumble. And actually we decorated the house we had a nice story in the names column today. He likes the new decorations. And this is the first how -- read decorated you may recall we had a story last week on a rock spring house in the fort hills section that was also we decorate for the movie so what. Who knows whose house social but next I'll take him at my house that they wondering decorate. I'm sure --"

" I already have get your binoculars and had to marvel that for some. Star sightings and it's a beautiful house right on the coast can Mary nice sorry Mike Allen thank you thanks."

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