Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound in Southwest Harbor has been trying to sedate the crustaceans with marijuana smoke to make their deaths less traumatic.
Penelope Overton
Staff Writer
Penny Overton is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she has covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut, and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
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Ready Seafood gets final permit for Maine’s largest lobster processing operation
The company looks to break ground Oct. 1 on the $10 million facility in Saco, with plans to hire as many as 50 more employees to help handle as much as 100,000 pounds of lobster a day.
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Lobster industry’s struggles overseas add urgency to driving up demand in U.S.
As exports to China and Europe plunge, Maine’s industry tries to build a unified domestic strategy to aid dealers and fishermen alike.
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Amid protests, Portland council delays vote on moratorium for pot-related businesses
City officials say the temporary ban would give them time to set rules for cannabis facilities, but businesses argue that would be unfair because of the time and money they have already invested.
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Maine dealers say China is further inflating prices on U.S. lobster as part of tariff war
Tariffs are being levied based on higher-priced Canadian lobster, they say, adding ‘salt on the wound’ of plunging U.S. lobster exports to Chinese markets.
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Discovery of immature lobsters in deep Down East waters may be good news for industry
Researchers feared that declines in the numbers of baby lobsters found in warmer, shallow waters might presage a population bust, but the young may merely be moving to deeper habitat, a UMaine professor says.
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Maine seeks consultant to craft rules and regulations for recreational pot sales
The selected company will have to submit its adult-use market plan by the end of April for review by state officials and legislators.
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U.S. lobster exports to China tank in the first month with new tariff
The data is the first to reflect the impact of a trade war between the U.S. and China, which had been a growing market for Maine lobster.
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Portland wants pot shops out of neighborhoods
But after months of legal limbo with no regulations, the city isn’t sure how many have already opened or where.
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Sale to Canadian company will give Portland-based Ready Seafood ‘a much bigger tool box’
The deal with Premium Brands of Vancouver arose out of Ready Seafood’s search for a partner to build a new facility in Saco.