Maine Politicians Urge Trump Administration to Extend USDA Federal Aid to Dealers, Processors
Last Wednesday U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would be providing approximately $530 million to support the U.S. seafood industry and fishermen who have been impacted by the retaliatory tariffs from foreign governments. While the program was welcomed by fishermen, lobster dealers and processors were some of the folks left out of the equation. Now, Maine senators Susan Collins and Angus King, as well as Representative Chellie Pingree, are calling on the Trump administration to expand the...
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