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The seafood state of Maine

By Jason Huffman | Published Aug. 15, 2018

Undercurrent News' senior reporter Jason Huffman recently traveled to Portland, Maine, to visit with some of the US' largest producers of lobster but also met a few other important seafood company executives. His camera came along for the ride and captured some incredible images of Maine's various seafood industries in action.

By Jason Huffman

Published Aug. 15, 2018

The Cozy Harbor Seafood processing plant, in Portland, Maine, is one of the US's two largest for processing lobsters

John Norton, the founder and CEO of Cozy Harbor Seafood, on Long Wharf, in Portland, Maine

Hugh Cowperthwaite, director of fisheries projects for Coastal Enterprises Inc., helps to put string through scallops at Bang's Island Mussels, in Portland, Maine. Cowperthwaite has been leading a local effort to use the Japanese technique for growing scallops in Maine

Lobster boats on Long Wharf, in Portland, Maine

Matt Moretti, a co-founder of Bangs Island Mussels, at his plant in Portland, Maine

The Portland (Maine) Lobster Company on Commercial Street, one of several dozen places in the city to find a lobster roll

A lobster roll at the Portland (Maine) Lobster Company

Gilbert's Chowder House, in Portland, Maine

One of the crew members of a herring seiner clowns for the camera while amidst a storm of seagulls trying to get at his catch in Rockland, Maine

Seagulls attack a truck full of herring, but can't break through the cover

A big banded "select" lobster on a wharf near Rockland, Maine

Maine lobster harvester Tim Marcoux throws one back for being too small

A Jonah crab poses after being freed from its brief captivity in a lobster trap

The view of Owl's Head Lighthouse from a lobster boat

Unloading a lobster boat in Rockland, Maine

Unloading a lobster boat in Rockland, Maine

Pogies in salt

Unloading a lobster boat in Rockland, Maine

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