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eMolt Drifter Training
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 What's New with eMOLT
 

eMOLT Drifter Training

      The eMOLT project will be deploying drifters over the summer and fall of 2004 to help better understand how ocean currents affect the lobster population.  This “Drifter Training” was for lobstermen who are participating in the program to learn how to build and deploy the drifters for this project. 

What’s New with eMOLT?

     Attendees learned more about the eMOLT project.  More than 100 temperature probes have been deployed by lobstermen from 4 different associations throughout the Gulf of Maine.  The data from the project is used to help better understand changes in oceanographic factors and how they affect lobsters.  Attendees saw for themselves how far off the bottom temperatures were in 2003 vs. previous years.  Attendees that have temperature probes were invited to bring them, along with their logsheets to have them read. 

Host:  Patrice Farrey, Maine Lobstermen’s Assn.