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A local man seen on surveillance video allegedly stealing at least $1,000 worth of lobster and meat from a Little River restaurant at least twice last month has been nabbed. According to a police report, cops responded to the Off Site Nano Brewery at 8250 NE Second Avenue, on a burglary call on the morning of July 26. One of the owners of the eatery known for its “Super Good” chicken sandwiches told officers that upon walking into the business at around 9 a.m. he noticed the door to the freezer, where perishable food was stored, open. Off Site’s surveillance...

New England lobstermen have won a favorable ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which reversed a lower court decision and has granted relief. In a decision Friday afternoon, Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg – the senior justice – wrote that the court was reversing a summary judgment of the District Court for the National Marine Fisheries Service and awarding a summary judgment to the Maine Lobstermen’s Association and the State of Maine Department of Marine Resources. In the decision, the court ruled that the “federal government went too far” in its regulatory process “when...

Federal grant recipients broke the law while spending an estimated $246 million in taxpayer dollars for cannabis and e-cigarette animal experiments, a new report by a group opposing publicly-funded animal testing finds. White Coat Waste Project’s report, published Wednesday, highlights 10 instances of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funneling money to researchers experimenting with getting animals high on THC or making them consume nicotine. “The blunt truth is that tens of millions of tax dollars are going up in smoke for half-baked marijuana and vaping experiments on animals and NIH-funded white coats are breaking federal law by not disclosing...

Boiling lobsters alive would be banned in the United Kingdom under new legislation that protects the “welfare rights” of crustaceans and mollusks, according to a report Wednesday. Parliament is considering updating its Animal Welfare Bill — which defends against the inhumane treatment of creatures with backbones — to include invertebrates such as lobsters, crabs, octopuses and squid, according to the Evening Standard. The bill, which is making its way through the legislature’s House of Lords, would require fishermen and chefs to stun or chill the sea creatures before boiling them, which is thought to be a more humane method of...

MIT researchers say that lobsters could offer a solution to the problem plaguing most modern body armors: the more mobility an armor offers, the less it protects the wearer’s body. Guo told MIT News that the idea for developing body armor inspired by lobsters arrived while he was eating one and noticed that the transparent membrane on the animal’s belly was difficult to chew. Unlike the crustacean’s bone-like outer shell, the animal’s softer tissues remained a mystery, he said. Once researchers began to dissect those tissues, they made a surprising discovery. Making significant cuts into the membrane didn’t affect the...

The First Family is en route to Martha's Vineyard to begin their two-week family vacation on the Island. President Obama, the First Lady, and daughters Malia and Sasha left the White House to board Marine One on the south lawn. Marine One took off at 12:41 p.m., bound for Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. There the family boarded Air Force One for the flight to Cape Cod and the Vineyard for a 1:03 p.m. departure. Sasha and Malia were chatting with each other as they boarded first, according to pool reports, and Mr. and Mrs. Obama followed. The President was...

Due to warming water trends, experts say the province of Prince Edward Island could become a veritable hatchery for lobster within a half-century. While they caution there is a lot they don't know about the spiny delicacies, it does seem almost certain that the trend toward abundance in the Atlantic Canadian lobster fishery is not about to slow down. "With the temperature increasing in P.E.I. waters and decreasing the number of days a baby lobster is susceptible, you have less predation and an increase in settlement size lobsters," says Memorial University grad student Ryan Stanley, who is the grandson of...

Kim Jong-Un said the manager was a 'defeatist' and had him put to death He had been offering field guidance to managers at a terrapin farm The dictator was angered by their inability to breed any lobsters North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has ruthlessly executed a 'defeatist' terrapin farm owner after reacting furiously to the farm on a tour in May. Following the embarrassing tour, Kim reportedly lashed out at the owner, promising 'grave consequences' for not producing any lobsters. According to Daily NK, the dictator was enraged by the farm not keeping the tanks clean and allowing several baby...

F/V Cornelia Marie Sets Course for Discovery’s DEADLIEST CATCH Once Again – Boat skippered by late Captain Phil Harris returns w/ Josh and Jake Harris on board – October 4, 2010 (Silver Spring, Md.) Discovery Channel President and General Manager Clark Bunting announced F/V Cornelia Marie, the crab fishing vessel that late Captain Phil Harris called home, will return with deckhands Josh and Jake Harris to fish the icy Bering Sea as DEADLIEST CATCH begins filming its seventh season. “Our Dad made a tremendous connection with so many fans and it is such a fitting tribute to his life that...

A Democratic stronghold is under threat and losing it could cost the president dear, writes Christina Lamb in Boston. It is a bitterly cold day in Boston, Massachusetts, and Bernard Feeney and his son are bringing in the day’s catch. The 100 lobsters writhing in the traps will end up on the tables of some of the best restaurants in Europe but what Feeney will earn barely covers his costs. “I wanted to be a lobsterman since I was a little kid on the dock,” said Feeney, who is now 61 and president of the Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association. “I still...

Eastham, MA (AHN) - A rare yellow-and-orange lobster has found a new home at Arnold's Lobster and Clam Bar in this city. Arnold's owner, Nathan "Nick" Nickerson, was given the lobster by a friend and created a home for the lobster, named Fiona, in his eatery's lobster tank, The Boston Globe reported. Fiona weighs in at a pound and three-quarters, but it's her coloring that makes her rare. Her spotted orange-and-yellow combination makes her one in about 30 million, specialists told the Globe. Fiona was caught sometime in the last few weeks off the coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada....

MIAMI - Police are fishing for information on the thieves who stole more than $1 million worth of lobster from a seafood company, authorities said today. The thieves looted about 71,000 pounds of individually wrapped lobster tails Saturday night from the freezers of Carlos Seafood, at 4041 NW 28th St., police said. They then tried to sell some lobster tails to a Hialeah seafood restaurant whose owner realized there were stolen and turned two women sellers away. Video surveillance cameras captured the event.

A San Diego man who was allegedly poaching lobsters was caught with six of the creatures stuffed down his pants. Binh Quang Chau, 33, who has been cited four times for poaching, allegedly took the lobsters from the La Jolla State Marine Conservation Area. Department of Fish and Game warden Daryl Simmons said wardens arrested Chau when they noticed "odd bulges" in his pants. All six of the newspaper-wrapped lobsters were still alive and were returned to the ocean. Lobsters in the San Diego area do not have pincers.

SKOWHEGAN, Maine - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has sent a proposal to the Somerset County commissioners to lease their jail for the world’s first Lobster Empathy Center. The central Maine county is constructing a new jail and has put the century-old jail in downtown Skowhegan up for sale. The Realtor handling the sale called the offer "likely a publicity stunt." "A prison is the perfect setting to demonstrate how lobsters suffer when they are caught in traps or confined to cramped, filthy supermarket tanks," PETA wrote in a June 2 letter to the commissioners. "The center will...

ASSOCIATED PRESS GROTON, Conn. (AP) -- A blob-like creature is invading Long Island Sound and posing a threat to its lobsters and other shellfish, University of Connecticut scientists say. The researchers say they have found colonies of invasive sea squirts, blob-shaped animals that reproduce easily, on the floor of the sound. They believe this variety of sea squirt, known as didemnum, arrived on the hulls of ships from Asia. They have no known predators. ''This thing has the potential for causing significant economic impact when it attaches to the floor of the Sound, where it blankets and suffocates shellfish and...

...The American lobster, Homarus americanus, seems to be thriving in the Gulf of Maine, where in recent record-breaking years fishermen have annually pulled 70 million pounds or more of lobster from their traps.... "The last 10 years have been banner years in Maine, with more lobsters landed than ever," said Linda Greenlaw, who fishes for lobsters from Isle au Haut (pronounced I'LL-oh-ho), at the mouth of Penobscot Bay. "Nobody can believe it." But even as fishermen applaud these catches, they are looking nervously to the south. Off Cape Cod, along coastal Rhode Island and in Long Island Sound, lobster populations...

He's a lobster, but he'd make a whale of a meal. But don't start melting butter or putting on your bib: the massive, 22- pound crustacean, plucked from the icy waters off Maine last week, is heading for a museum, not a dinner plate. Yesterday, the owner of Wholey's fish market in Pittsburgh — where Bubba has been chillin' since Thursday — gave the leviathan lobster to the local zoo, which will send it to a Ripley's Believe It or Not aquarium. Until yesterday's reprieve, store owner Bob Wholey was caught in the middle of a battle between People for...

It is the ethical dilemma that for decades has troubled the rich and aspiring the world over: when you place a live lobster in a pot of boiling water, does it feel pain? Norwegian scientists were asked to investigate pain, discomfort and stress in invertebrates and claim now to have discovered that the answer is no. Their conclusion applies also to crabs and to live worms on a fish hook. None of these feel a thing. Which is good news for Norwegian fishermen at least. Their government was considering a ban on live worms as fish bait under revisions to...

[Abstract:] It has been reported that one Ms. Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, VA, net wt 105 lbs, won the lobster speed-eating championship by eating 38 lobsters (9.76 lbs of meat) within 12 minutes. It is further mentioned that in the past she also won baked beans/pork (8.4 lbs in 2min 47sec) and hard-boiled eggs events (results not reported).

Police are investigating a claim by an animal rights extremist group that it was responsible for releasing a fisherman's lobsters, seriously damaging his boathouse and splashing red paint around his home. The statement by an organisation calling itself the Lobster Liberation Front included a warning that "the war against the lobster industry has begun". The notice, which was posted anonymously on the Southern Animal Rights Coalition website, added: "We will attack anywhere, at any time, and pots will be smashed, boats sunk and sea life liberated." It added: "No animal should be sacrificed for human greed, let alone boiled alive."...