In 2003, Maine Sea Grant provided program development funds to The Lobster Conservancy, a nonprofit organization in Friendship, ME, that "works with fishermen and volunteers throughout the Gulf of Maine region to sustain a thriving lobster fishery through science and community education." The Sea Grant funds supported a Lobster Literacy Retreat to train Maine educators to raise lobster larvae in the classroom, and to develop lobster-related curriculum units. The retreat trained seven new teachers and six island fellows, and tested 10 new lessons for a multidisciplinary unit on lobsters. The lessons are mapped to the Maine Learning Results, and they are available on the education pages of The Lobster Conservancy Web site.

For more information, please contact The Lobster Conservancy's research and education coordinator, Linda Archambault.