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Canada Sending Angry Crabs To Attack the United States

Matthew McDonald

Angry green crabs from Nova Scotia migrating to coastal Maine waters are destroying soft shell clams and eel grass, researchers say.

The crabs originated in northern Europe and are more aggressive than the type of green crabs that have previously inhabited New England waters. Those come from southern Europe originally.

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Killing Stoned Lobsters More Humane, and They Taste Better, Too, Says Weed-Growing Restaurateur

Matthew McDonald

A lobster restaurant owner in Maine is using marijuana smoke to make the deaths of her entrees more humane.

"I feel bad that when lobsters come here there is no exit strategy," said Charlotte Gill, owner of Charlotte's Legendary Lobster Pound, according to the Mount Desert Islander. "It's a unique place and you get to do such unique things but at the expense of this little creature. I've really been trying to figure out how to make it better."

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