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Lobster, American/Maine

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American/Maine Lobster Good Alternative: These are good alternatives to the best choices column. There are some concerns with how they are fished or farmed – or with the health of their habitats due to other human impacts. Northeast U.S., Canada Trap
Caribbean Spiny Lobster Best Choice: These fish are abundant, well managed and fished or farmed in environmentally friendly ways. Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Warmwater Lobster Florida Wild-caught
Caribbean Spiny Lobster Good Alternative: These are good alternatives to the best choices column. There are some concerns with how they are fished or farmed – or with the health of their habitats due to other human impacts. Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Warmwater Lobster Bahamas Wild-caught
Caribbean Spiny Lobster Avoid: Avoid these products for now. These fish come from sources that are overfished or fished or farmed in ways that harm the environment. Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Warmwater Lobster Imported except Bahamas Wild-caught
Spiny Lobster Best Choice: These fish are abundant, well managed and fished or farmed in environmentally friendly ways. California Spiny Lobster California Wild-caught
Spiny Lobster Best Choice: These fish are abundant, well managed and fished or farmed in environmentally friendly ways. California Spiny Lobster, Red Lobster Baja Mexico Wild-caught


American/Maine Lobster

Although there's abundant American lobster in the Gulf of Maine, there’s scientific uncertainty about whether this lobster is being overfished.

Summary

The large-clawed American lobster, caught off New England, is found in restaurants and food markets coast to coast. Several new methods to estimate the population size of American lobster are being examined, but for now the current population status is considered weak or unknown.

This, combined with the infrequent accidental entanglement of endangered North Atlantic right whales in lobster fishing gear, or pots, is a cause for environmental concern.

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