Rick Wahle, director of the University of Maine's Lobster Institute, will continue deep-water research, thanks to $50,000 donated by Ready Seafood Co. and $25,000 by Santa Monica Seafood Co., a seafood distributor in California. The deep-water research data helps scientists evaluate how temperature affects the nursery potential of seabed for larval lobsters, and subsequent bottom movements by older juveniles.

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