Maine DMR Nixes Lobster Size Limit Increase as Pressure from Commercial Fishermen Mounts
Drouin Calls U-Turn ‘Unprecedented’
By Will Tuell
The long and fraught battle over legal lobster size changes took another dramatic twist last week as Maine’s Department of Marine Resources (DMR) bowed to pressure from fishermen and withdrew a proposed 1/16th-inch gauge increase that was set to take effect July 1. The news came as fishermen and other industry stakeholders gathered for a Jan. 9 public hearing on the proposal.