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What's New With eMolt
Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps
 

     Attendees received a review and update of the Emolt project.  This year, several lobstermen deployed “drifters” built by students at SMCC to track currents in the Gulf of Maine.  More than 100 temperature probes continue to be deployed by lobstermen throughout the Gulf of Maine.  The data from the project is used to better understand changes in oceanographic factors and how they affect lobsters.  Attendees saw for themselves how bottom temperatures from 2004 compare to previous years and what we learned from the drifter deployments.  Following the presentation of the project’s findings, eMOLT participants and other interested parties were invited to participate in a discussion of the eMOLT protocols and the development of a new “real time” temperature probe.  Attendees shared thoughts on their vision for the future of eMOLT.

Host:  Patrice McCarron, Maine Lobstermen’s Assn.