{"id":4674,"date":"2014-03-24T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=4674"},"modified":"2014-03-24T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:13:43","slug":"maines-2013-lobster-fishery-tops-charts-but-abundance-varies-by-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/maines-2013-lobster-fishery-tops-charts-but-abundance-varies-by-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine\u2019s 2013 lobster fishery tops charts but abundance varies by zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HALLOWELL, ME \u2013 Calling it \u201cthe state\u2019s most lucrative fishery,\u201d the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) announced in early March that the 2013 harvest of American lobsters resulted in yet \u201canother year of record landings and value.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by the usual caveat that all of its figures were still \u201cpreliminary,\u201d the DMR said 2013 lobster landings totaled 125,953,876 pounds, the second highest level on record, surpassed only by last year\u2019s staggering 127,225,275-pound record breaker.<\/p>\n<p>The value of the 2013 catch was initially placed at $364,518,516 million \u2013 by far the highest ever recorded \u2013 representing a $22 million increase over 2012 and a $30 million increase over 2011.<\/p>\n<p>But the <i>real<\/i> value of Maine\u2019s lobster fishery has always been difficult for the DMR to tabulate because annual \u201cbonuses\u201d play a role in the bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>Lobster co-operatives pay their members an annual \u201cpatronage dividend,\u201d more commonly called a \u201cbonus,\u201d to divvy up profits among members who sell to co-ops.\u00a0 The practice has evolved significantly over the years and, today, some dealers also pay \u201cbonuses.\u201d\u00a0 The tricky part is that some co-ops and dealers pay lower prices per pound on a daily basis but then hand out large bonus checks after they close their books for the year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"CFN_4_14cover\" src=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/CFN_4_14cover-244x300.jpg\" width=\"171\" height=\"210\" \/>Read the rest and much, much more in the\u00a0April issue of Commercial Fisheries News.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read online\u00a0immediately and download for future reference.<\/p>\n<p>[add_to_cart=4623]<\/p>\n<div id=\"ninja-children-wrap\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALLOWELL, ME \u2013 Calling it \u201cthe state\u2019s most lucrative fishery,\u201d the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) announced in early March that the 2013 harvest of American lobsters resulted in yet \u201canother year of record landings and value.&#8221; Accompanied by the usual caveat that all of its figures were still \u201cpreliminary,\u201d the DMR said 2013 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/maines-2013-lobster-fishery-tops-charts-but-abundance-varies-by-zone\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-14","category-business-news","category-lobster","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4683,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions\/4683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}