October 30, 2015 — A 23 percent increase in the value of the country’s 2014 total lobster landings has made Maine the second-most lucrative state for commercial marine fisheries behind Alaska, according to federal officials.
Maine, where 84 percent of all lobster caught nationwide was brought ashore last year, surpassed Massachusetts with help from a 75 cent increase in the national average price lobstermen earned for their catch, according to an annual report released Thursday by the National Marine Fisheries Service. The national average price paid to fishermen for lobster increased from $3.08 in 2013 to $3.83 in 2014, federal officials indicated in the 2014 Fisheries of the United States report.