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MORNING SENTINEL - The funds from the event were generated in large part by a donation from Cozy Harbor Seafood in Portland of 100 pounds of lobster meat.

MAINEBUSINESS.COM— The Maine Lobster Promotion Council and local talk radio station WLOB are teaming up with local lobster organizations to honor veterans across the state with a weekly chance to win a lobster dinner in celebration of Veterans’ Day, which happens to fall during Maine’s peak lobster harvest season.

WABI TV5 by Rob Pointdexter -- It's one of the biggest fundraisers of the year for the folks at the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers in Waterville.

ISLAND AD-VANTAGES by Jessica Brophy -- When Kristian Burrin heard about the Maine Lobster Chef of the Year competition, which is part of Portland’s annual “Harvest on the Harbor” festival, he knew he had to enter.

ASSOCIATED PRESS -- LePage has signed a proclamation in recognition of the lobster industry. October represents the peak of the state’s lobster harvest.

BBC News -- While overfishing threatens fish stocks in many parts of the world, Maine's lobster population keeps on growing. It's all thanks to a few simple measures that ensure adult males and females get plenty of opportunity to meet, and reproduce.

PATRIOT LEDGER -- The Gulf of Maine “responsibly harvested” products at Shaw’s include lobster, northern shrimp, cod, haddock, scallops and pollock. The certified products include sockeye salmon, wild king salmon, wild Alaskan halibut, Icelandic and Canadian haddock, and a few other stocks.

DAILYBREEZE.COM By Douglas Morino -- And in Redondo Beach, it's once again time to celebrate that delicious invertebrate from the bottom of the sea, the lobster.

BOSTON GLOBE by Billy Baker -- Mainer uses pressurization to shuck crustaceans without cooking

After two days of watching over the shoulders of incredible chefs from around the city of Hong Kong prepare creative and mouth watering dishes using Shucks' Whole Shucked Lobster...

BANGOR DAILY NEWS by Seth Koenig -- Neville Perryman, a lobsterman who hauls traps in the waters off the coast of Australia, sells his catch for the equivalent of $31.60 per pound on the beaches of China. That’s almost 10 times what a lobsterman working in Maine waters gets for his catch, and it makes the populous Asian country look like an awfully attractive place to sell Maine lobster. But entering into the Chinese market is a high-stakes game that, if lobstermen and distributors from the Pine Tree State don’t play right, could be lethal for their businesses.