The aesthetically polished seafood restaurant is the brainchild of Amy Beard, who, according to the Lobster Trap’s promotional material, spent her youth working the docks in Portland, Maine.

Traditional lobster trap fishing uses vertical ropes, which connect gear on the seafloor to a buoy on the surface. Unfortunately, those pose a serious risk to whales. "Less than 340 are remaining ...

From our December 2016 issue. Mainers have developed quite a knack for building huge Yuletide trees — out of lobster traps, of course. Fishing towns from Kittery to Cutler were humbled when Gloucester ...

Some of the material can be reused, such as the frame, but most of the time the traps are in pretty poor condition, as they tend to get pretty beat up on their way to the shore. “So a lot of the rest ...

The town of Kennebunk announced in a Sept. 26 news release that it received a grant from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to offer 100 free “lobster trap” compost bins to ...

The Lobster Trap Recovery and Assessment Partnership is a project between The Maritime Aquarium, Save the Sound and other organizations to improve the ecosystem. So far, 1,178 old traps have been ...

Several groups have worked together to remove more than 1,000 abandoned lobster traps in Long Island Sound. The Lobster Trap Recovery and Assessment Partnership is a project between The Maritime ...