Bait shortage comes as lobster demand heats up
Officials with the Maine Department of Marine Resources are mulling over the possibility of aiding in the shortage of lobster bait caught on Georges Bank, a key fishing area off Massachusetts.
“The issue is that we are seeing there is certainly a bait shortage, but we are also trying to limit what is landed, because there has not been fish coming in from offshore,” Meredith Mendelson, the deputy commissioner of the department of marine resources, told the Associated Press. “We want to try to stretch out the inshore bait supply throughout the summer season to the extent possible.”
The spotty availability of herring is particularly bad news for the state of Maine, where tourist season is starting to hit full steam. The AP reports that in 2014, fishermen from the state caught more than 120 million pounds of lobster, more than 80% of the entire catch of the country.
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