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Trading Lobsters for Oysters | Ambrook Research

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A decade ago, motoring over the shimmering waves on Casco Bay off the coast of Portland, Maine, was a thread-the-needle navigation challenge: nosing your boat carefully in between lobster buoys. Read Next A Red Herring in the Supreme Court One of the World’s Strangest — and Most Critical — Fisheries Is in Serious Danger Eating Away the Blue Catfish Invasion Each buoy marked the location of lobster traps on the seafloor. The array of colors indicated which lobsterman they belonged to, and every morning the bay hummed with boats setting off to collect their haul. I had not been on the bay in over a decade when my husband and I loaded up a boat last summer for a classic Maine vacation. As we cruised around Whaleboat Island on a hazy early August morning, the navigation was easy: We gazed out over just three lobster buoys bobbing in the waves. In the years since I’d last been on that stretch of water, the lobsters had scuttled north along the ocean floor in search of a cooler environment.

As Maine’s waters grow too warm for the state’s iconic shellfish, oyster farms are offering an alternative income for lobstermen. A decade ago, motoring over the shimmering waves on Casco Bay off the coast of Portland, Maine, was a thread-the-needle navigation challenge: nosing your boat carefully in between lobster buoys. Read Next A Red Herring in the Supreme Court One of the World’s Strangest — and Most Critical — Fisheries Is in Serious Danger Eating Away the Blue Catfish Invasion Each buoy marked the location of lobster traps on the seafloor. The array of colors indicated which lobsterman

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