After getting a taste of life as a dockworker when he was a teenager, Tom Adams was hooked.
More than three decades later, 46-year-old Adams has climbed from earning $4.50 an hour to heading Maine Coast, the seafood distributor he founded in 2011 that generated $40 million in sales last year.
"I got a little salt in my blood and ended up staying with it," Adams said of his early education in the business, which included unloading boats, grading lobster and picking their meat.
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