Maine's seafood packing plants have a diverse workforce, but commercial fishing is mostly white. ... 15, has been learning to lobster aboard the Sea Smoke lobster boat in Portland, Maine.

How lobster fishing began in southern Maine. Before eating the crustaceans became popular, ... Capt. Tom Martin of Lucky Catch Cruises, located on Portland’s waterfront, ...

You can't go wrong with a fishing village that boasts supreme lobster rolls and offers access to kayaking and galleries full ...

The people of Maine Lobster are as diverse as the product’s many fans. ... whether they fish from Portland, ... her grandfather started lobster fishing there many decades ago.

A lobster fishing boat motors out to sea at sunrise off South Portland, Maine. Maine lobstermen often catch more than 80 percent of America’s lobster haul. They set a record of more than 130 ...

PORTLAND, Maine — America’s lobster fishing industry will face a host of new harvesting restrictions amid a new push from the federal government to try to save a vanishing species of whale.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fishing industry regulators have decided to scrap stricter new lobster fishing standards off New England in the wake of months of protest from lobster fishermen that the ...

Maine lobster industry wins reprieve but environmentalists say whales will die The $1.7 trillion spending bill just signed into law contains a 6-year delay on new federal fishing regulations that ...

Maine is by far the most productive lobster fishing state in the country, and the catch has been high for several straight years. The total catch was nearly 120 million pounds last year, and the ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has reinstated a ban on lobster harvesting in hundreds of miles of productive fishing waters off the Maine coast to try to protect rare whales.