For the third year in a row and only the third time ever, Maine lobster fishermen landed over 120 million pounds with a record overall value of $456,935,346, according to preliminary landings data reported by the Maine Department of Marine Resources.

At $3.69 per pound, the 123,676,100 pounds landed represented an improvement of 79 cents per pound over 2013, the largest single-year increase in per-pound value since DMR and National Marine Fisheries Service began keeping records. The one-year increase in overall value was also the largest on record and at $86,653,573 was more than the total value of the fishery 21 years earlier.

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