BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 22, 2024
The University of Maine has tapped a former member of the lobster industry to lead an institute that studies and supports the state’s most well-known fishery. Chris Cash spent 14 years fishing for lobster, eight of them on her own boat. She hopes to use that background in her new role as the executive director of the UMaine Lobster Institute, to bring some fresh perspective to the center and to expand its outreach to her former colleagues in the industry. “Rather than coming from specifically a research background, I come from a commercial fishing and industry background,” Cash said. “So I feel like that brings a value when I’m going out in the field and talking to fishermen, that I can certainly relate.”