‘Everybody’s Just Restless’: Maine’s Iconic Lobster Fishery Braces for Trade Wars, Upheaval
WASHINGTON — Maine’s hardy lobster fishery has, seemingly, seen it all.
Good seasons and bad. The ups and downs of government regulations. The growing threat of warming seas.
But this year, the state’s thousands of lobstermen, and the thousands more whose livelihoods depend on the industry, are staring down a storm the likes they’ve never seen before.
As President Trump wages an unprecedented protectionist campaign to impose or tease steep tariffs on nearly every trading partner, an industry that thrives on the free flow of global trade — and disposable...
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