Peg, I'm with you 99%, but, there is something you may not know. When I was a Maine Coastal Warden back in the 60's, the annual catch of lobsters was 20 million pounds. Last year it was over 40 million pounds. It's hard to understand why they are pushing the panic button on lobsters.

Now, the matter of overfishing of certain other species is another thing to be concerned about. Cod is the species that drew the Europeans to this part of the world in the first place, and, with the stocks of Cod at an alarming low, it has given the lobstaers a break, because Cod are lobster predators.