, , and , interviewed Robert Jarrett II, recent University of Maine doctoral graduate, on his research which showed that a steep drop in baby lobsters provided an early warning of the sharp decline in adult lobsters along Maine鈥檚 midcoast, 鈥淏ecause of the differences in Eastern and Western Maine, we鈥檙e probably going to have different habitats that lobsters can continue to use into the future, but that might result in changes in what the fishery looks like,鈥 Jarrett said. 鈥淲e might have more fishermen fishing offshore or have better success in, say, Western Maine than Eastern Maine as the Gulf of Maine changes.鈥
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