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Lobster condos a hot seller
Moncton showcased snappy, sustainable concrete condos this week ... for lobsters. A conference on lobster sustainability wrapped up in the Hub City Wednesday, as scientists met with industry stakeholders to hammer out a sustainable future for the billion-dollar industry.
 

Scattered across the ocean floor of coastal shores stretching from Quebec to Nova Scotia are 70,000 "lobster condos." The artificial reefs are created by Homarus Inc., a research and development wing of the Maritime Fishermen's Union.

Lobsters are a territorial, burrowing crustacean and they like to have their own space, said Homarus director Martin Mallet.

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STEVE SCHEIBLAUER: California's “Forage” Fish Protection Strongest in the World, Yet Extremists Still Want to Ban Fishing

Monterey Bay's historic "wetfish" industry is under attack by extremist groups who claim overfishing is occurring. Touting studies with faulty calculations, activists are lobbying federal regulators to massively limit fishing, if not ban these fisheries outright.  Apparently the facts don’t matter to groups with an anti-fishing agenda