MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • January 9, 2022
The series The Lobster Trap missed the boat in its quest to invent a drama that places Maine’s lobster industry on the front line in the “battle over climate change.” This reporting dismisses, dehumanizes and minimizes fishermen’s role in mitigation and adaptation strategies, and it perpetuates a narrative that they are unwilling to engage in climate change conversations. Lobstermen are not climate deniers and they do not reject science. Their livelihood depends on sound science along with their intimate understanding of our oceans. They live it, observe it and constantly innovate and adapt. But fishermen rightly question scientific “truths,” not because they don’t believe them, but because they are imperfect explanations that often do not match what they observe while working at sea. ~ Patrice McCarron, Maine Lobstermen’s Association