Lobstermen disagreed, contending that their longstanding practice of returning oversized lobsters to the sea as brood stock would take care of the problem. Government scientists attributed the drop-off to overfishing and recommended raising the minimum legal size of lobsters that could be harvested. In the 1980s, the lobster population in the waters off the coast of Maine was declining, threatening disaster for the state's lobster fishing industry.
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