Maine Lobster Harvesters: Don't Abandon Marketing Program Just When It is Needed (Editorial)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton [Editorial] Nov. 14, 2017
Yesterday we learned that there is considerable opposition on the docks in Maine to the reauthorization of the levy funding the Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative.
The levy that funds the marketing program comes from an additional charge on lobster licenses, and has to be renewed by the legislature next year.
But in a series of meetings up and down the coast, there has been some vocal opposition to the whole idea of a marketing program.
Two of the seven zone councils have voted to support it, and meetings in the other two are being held this...
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