Connecticut Lobster Industry a Shell of Itself
Bart Mansi, owner of the Guilford Lobster Pound, has been catching lobsters in the Long Island Sound since he was a teenager in the 1970s, but the days of Connecticut’s booming lobster industry are gone.
Mansi, who now throws out a few lobster traps a year mostly for fun, remembers how lucrative the industry was that once afforded a livable and sustainable wage. But now, he said, the Connecticut lobster industry is no longer viable. Instead, his business trucks in lobsters from Maine and Canada, where the industry still thrives in the frigid...
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