Patrick Whittle

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  • Maine lobsterEnvironment

    New England’s $510 million lobster economy reels from near 40% population plunge

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • Doubling Point LighthouseEnvironment

    11 lighthouse enthusiasts who are only allowed access once per year fall 10 feet onto rocky Maine mudflats after sudden bridge collapse

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • Susan LinderEnvironment

    Scientists face impossible choice over preservation of priceless blue crab blood: Let vital medicines wither or an endangered bird

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • A logo on vessel near the OceanGate Inc. offices in Everett, Washington, US, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. The five crew members on the missing OceanGate Titan submersible that was headed to the Titanic died from a “catastrophic implosion” of their vessel. Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    OceanGate has ‘suspended all exploration and commercial operations’ following the Titan submersible tragedy

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • Titan subEnvironment

    Coast Guard locates ‘presumed human remains’ from wreckage of Titan sub vessel

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • The Polar Prince, the main support ship for the Titan submersible, arrives at the Port of St. John’s in Newfoundland, Canada. Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Hamish Harding, Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman, died after the missing Titan submersible suffered a catastrophic implosion while trying to reach the RMS Titanic. Picture date: Saturday June 24, 2023. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt/PA Images via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    ‘Presumed human remains’ found in wreckage of Titan sub after its trip with 5 passengers ended in disaster

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • AT SEA – (—-EDITORIAL USE ONLY â” MANDATORY CREDIT – ” OCEANGATE/ HANDOUT” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) An undated photo shows tourist submersible belongs to OceanGate begins to descent at a sea. Search and rescue operations continue by US Coast Guard in Boston after a tourist submarine bound for the Titanic’s wreckage site went missing off the southeastern coast of Canada. (Photo by Ocean Gate / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    All 5 aboard OceanGate’s Titan submersible ‘have sadly been lost’ based on debris found that are ‘consistent with a catastrophic implosion’

    By Patrick Whittle, Holly Ramer, and others
  • SubmersibleEnvironment

    The missing Titan sub search has passed the critical 96-hour mark: ‘Just a needle in a haystack situation’

    By Patrick Whittle, Holly Ramer, and others
  • This photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions shows a submersible vessel named Titan used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic. In a race against the clock on the high seas, an expanding international armada of ships and airplanes searched Tuesday, June 20, 2023, for the submersible that vanished in the North Atlantic while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP)

    Underwater noises heard during massive search for missing Titan sub with billionaire U.K. businessman among 5 aboard

    By Patrick Whittle, Holly Ramer, and others
  • Roger PayneSuccess

    Roger Payne, the scientist who helped create modern environmentalism by discovering that whales can sing, dies at 88

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A seal hunter drags a harp seal back to his snowmobile during the annual seal hunt on an ice floe on April 2, 2005, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. A Canadian company has pleaded guilty Monday, June 5, 2023, to violating federal law by illegally selling seal oil capsules to American customers. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP, File)Environment

    A Canadian company just pleaded guilty to selling seal blubber as a nutritional supplement and will pay a $20,000 fine

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • ElversRetail

    Baby eels are so valuable to Asian companies that Maine fishermen get $2,000 per pound for them

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • Fishers prepare market stalls in the late nightEnvironment

    ‘It’s a disaster. A total, complete disaster.’ Fishers fuming over new quotas to limit haddock catches

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • 07 September 2020, Brandenburg, Sieversdorf: In the back light the shadow of a tick (Ixodida) can be seen on a leaf. Here the bloodsucking ectoparasite is waiting for its prey. Many tick species are important disease carriers. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)Health

    Warmer weather means the start of tick season— and an increased threat of Lyme disease

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
  • FILE – An Atlantic salmon leaps out of the water at a Cooke Aquaculture farm pen on Oct. 11, 2008, near Eastport, Maine. A New Hampshire group wants to be the first to bring offshore fish farming to the waters off New England by raising salmon and trout in open-ocean pens miles from land, but critics fear the plan raises environmental concerns. Blue Water Fisheries wants to place 40 submersible fish pens on two sites totaling nearly a square mile about 7.5 miles off Newburyport, Massachusetts, according to federal documents from June 2022. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)Environment

    A New England offshore fish farm would be the first of its kind but environmentalists aren’t thrilled

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press