Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative Faces a Startling Foe: The Industry Itself
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Press Herald] Penelope Overton - November 13, 2017
As the marketing collaborative tries to renew the license surcharge that provides its funding, fishermen ask what they're getting for the money.
Maine’s lobster marketing group is facing existential opposition from an unlikely source: the lobster industry.
With lobster prices down, both at the dock and the dealer’s office, some who make their living off the state’s signature crustacean are reluctant to approve another five years of funding to the Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative, whose $2.2 million-a-year budget is funded by lobster license surcharges.
With its state funding about to expire, the collaborative is taking its case to fishermen in fire halls and ferry...
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