Maine Lobstermen’s Association Education Coordinator Annie Tselikis talks with Stevoe about marketing Maine lobster and ways to grow the industry.<\/p><\/div>\n
Since starting her work in Maine\u2019s commercial fishing industry in 2007 Annie Tselikis has made quite a name for herself. She has worked for several organizations including the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, the Island Institute, and the Penobscot East Resource Center. Adding to this list, Tselikis also worked on Eliot Cutler\u2019s 2010 gubernatorial campaign and in 2012, she received a Maine Today Media Forty under 40 award.<\/p>\n
Currently Tselikis serves on the Maine Fishermen\u2019s Forum board of directors, is the public member on the Maine Scallop Advisory Council, and is the Education Coordinator for the Maine Lobstermen\u2019s Association (MLA).<\/p>\n
The MLA was founded in 1954 and is currently the oldest and largest fishing industry association on the east coast. Representing 1,200 members, the MLA works to sustain both the industry and the resource. The MLA strives to be proactive on issues affecting the lobster industry and is active in the management process at the state, regional and federal levels.<\/p>\n
Currently the association is conducting several projects in collaboration with the Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction to identify potential fishing practices that would mitigate risk to whales from lobster gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Maine Gov. John Baldacci returned to TideSmart Talk with Stevoe for an in-studio interview for the September 1 broadcast. Baldacci, who previously appeared on an April 28 show, joined to discuss what he has been up to since leaving office and to talk candidly about government. In the second hour, Stevoe was joined by Maine Lobstermen’s Association Education Coordinator Annie Tselikis for a discussion about one of Maine’s best-known exports. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}