GOULDSBORO, Maine — Live Lobster plans to begin processing lobster this week in the former Stinson Seafood cannery, according to a company official.
Antonio Bussone, president of the Chelsea, Mass.-based company, said July 27 that the last pieces of equipment were expected to arrive and be installed within the next few days. Cutting tables, knives and conveyor belts should be in place by mid-week, he said, which will enable the first frozen tails and vacuum-packed meat to come rolling out of the former sardine cannery.
He said the cement floor and walls have been poured for the facility’s 6,700 square-foot lobster storage tank. The company has been selling bait to local fishermen since early June.
Bussone said that, at the time of the July 27 interview, the company had hired 36 people to work at the facility, which will operate as Lobster Web Co. He said that he expects between six and eight more people to be hired by the time operations begin this coming week.
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