PORT CLYDE, Maine – Maine's lobster industry is being pulled in new directions-thanks to an unlikely champion.
Linda Bean-the granddaughter of L.L. bean— has become a leader in the lobster business. Bean says she was approached in 2007 about buying a lobster wharf in port Clyde, where she was living at the time.
She did end up buying it and trained for six months under the former owner. Since then, Bean has dramatically expanded the business-buying other wharfs in the midcoast, opening a storage and shipping facility and a lobster processing plant.
She ships live lobster and frozen lobster meat to restaurants and stores, as do other companies. But she has also created a line of consumer-ready retail products, such as lobster ravioli and lobster bisque, which are being sold in stores around the country.
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