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i From pauper's food to cultural icon, this book tells the story of the use and consumption of the lobster. From coastal fishers through the Industrial Revolution to modern times, the book shows how the lobster has been transformed from peasant food into a luxurious delicacy. Lobster: A Global History is the first book to describe the social history of the consumption of this seafood around the world, and to address the current controversy about the humane killing of lobsters, which may alter the readers' enjoyment of the dish. It includes beautiful images of rarely-seen lobsters, and both old and contemporary lobster recipes. Lobster will appeal to anyone who loves this fascinating crustacean, or who has chased a lobster across the kitchen floor.
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Lobster
Takes us on a journey through the history, biology, and culture of lobsters, including the creature's economic and environmental status worldwide. He describes the evolution of technologies to capture these creatures and addresses the ethics of boiling them alive. Along the way, King also explores the salacious lobster palaces of the 1920s, the animal's thousand-year status as an aphrodisiac, and how the lobster has inspired numerous artists, writers, and thinkers including Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau, Dali, and Woody Allen.
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Forecasting the Seasonal Timing of Maine's Lobster Fishery
The fishery for American lobster is currently the highest-valued commercial fishery in the United States, worth over US$620 million in dockside value in 2015. During a marine heat wave in 2012, the fishery was disrupted by the early warming of spring ocean temperatures and subsequent influx of lobster landings. This situation resulted in a price collapse, as the supply chain was not prepared for the early and abundant landings of lobsters. Motivated by this series of events, we have developed a forecast of when the Maine (USA) lobster fishery will shift into its high volume summer landings period. The forecast uses a regression approach to relate spring ocean temperatures derived from four NERACOOS buoys along the coast of Maine to the start day of the high landings period of the fishery. Tested against conditions in past years, the forecast is able to predict the start day to within one week of the actual start, and the forecast can be issued 3-4 months prior to the onset of the high-landings period, providing valuable lead-time for the fishery and its associated supply chain to prepare for the upcoming season. Forecast results are conveyed in a probabilistic manner and are updated weekly over a 6-week forecasting period so that users can assess the certainty and consistency of the forecast and factor the uncertainty into their use of the information in a given year. By focusing on the timing of events, this type of seasonal forecast provides climate-relevant information to users at time scales that are meaningful for operational decisions. As climate change alters seasonal phenology and reduces the reliability of past experience as a guide for future expectations, this type of forecast can enable fishing industry participants to better adjust to and prepare for operating in the context of climate change.
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Gaps and Challenges in Harnessing the Benefits and Opportunities of Indigenous Certification for a Sustainable Communal Commercial Lobster Fishery
The Marshall Decision of Canada’s Supreme Court inspired the Mi’kmaq in the 1700s regarding recognizing fishing rights to the Mi’kmaq communities. Despite this recognition, the Mi’kmaq communities did not have access to commercial fisheries due to the denial of absolute recognition of territories and rights and underrepresentation and participation in resource allocation, governance, and decision-making processes. A potential approach to these issues is the development of third-party Indigenous community-based sustainability certification standards for the American lobster (Homarus americanus) commercial fishery of Nova Scotia by Mi’kmaq communities. An Indigenous certification is a market-based tool that focuses on a holistic approach to the sustainability of the resource, followed by independent accreditations and standards. This study identifies the gaps, challenges, and opportunities of Indigenous-based certifications for the American lobster commercial fishery. We adopt a participatory approach to conventional policy analysis and perform a secondary analysis of existing legal and scientific resources to glean valuable information for supporting the establishment of an Indigenous certification for the American lobster. Certification could provide benefits such as increased control over fisheries management, governance, rights, and socioeconomic interest, building capacity for Mi’kmaq communities, and improving stakeholder relationships. However, there are issues with the entry points of certification for Indigenous peoples related primarily to the dominant actors in accreditation. This study will support further research and engagement of the Mi’kmaq people toward developing an Indigenous certification scheme.
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George's place. The season
Lobsters slowly migrate north, moving into the Machias Bay from warmer, southern waters. George works quickly to finish setting his full quota of traps. During July, August and September, he and Mark put in long days, hauling, baiting and banding their catch. Each fisherman jealously guards the secrets of his own waters.
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George's place. On the water
During April, George and Mark, his son and sternman, begin setting traps for the season ahead. It’s cold and rough on the ocean, and lobsters are scarce. Halibut fishing, permitted for only several weeks of the year, offers George the chance to draw on his carefully accumulated knowledge of where to drop a line. His son, David, works alongside him, deferring to his father’s expertise. As George cautiously hauls in his hooks, is there a bite?
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George's place. In the dooryard
Spring in Buck’s Harbor is about preparing for the fishing season ahead. Work on lobster traps and on halibut hooks begins in earnest. But it is rarely a solitary activity. Every day people come and go from George’s dooryard – offering advice, seeking help, enjoying companionship in the chilly days that follow winter.
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George's place. The float
The peak of the lobster season has arrived. George works closely with his son and grandson to repair their float ravaged by high tides, strong winds and the constant erosion of salt water. Towing and securing it involves collective effort of skill and coordination. Bait is getting short. The traps are full. Together, George and Mark bring in their catch and prepare for its shipment to the city.
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Measuring the Productive Efficiency of the Connecticut Long Island Lobster Sound Fishery Using a Novel Finite Mixture Model
When vessel-level data and input prices are unobserved, estimating the effect of water quality changes on fishery performance can be challenging. To address this problem, we develop a novel production function model with technical efficiency (TE) under the assumption that there are multiple groups within the fishery with different levels of TE and the allocation of fishers into these groups is unknown. The methodology is applied to the Connecticut Long Island Sound lobster fishery. Two groups of fishers were identified to operate at different TE levels (0.88 and 0.74) between 1998 and 2007. The difference in TE is primarily explained by total fishing days and the number of fishers, though environmental variables also have some impact. These findings have important implications for policies geared toward improving efficiency in fisheries and accurate assessment of the overall health of marine fisheries.
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