PORTLAND, Maine — The nation's last full-time sardine cannery is being given a second life four months after it closed with a company agreeing to buy it and operate it as a lobster-processing facility.
Bumble Bee Foods LLC announced Wednesday it had agreed to sell the former Stinson Seafood plant in Prospect Harbor to Massachusetts-based Live Lobster Co. Inc.
The plant was the victim of declining sardine consumption and foreign competition, and Bumble Bee shuttered it in April after a century of operation, putting nearly 130 employees out of work.
Live Lobster expects to create up to 40 jobs in the first year and 120 within two years. The plant at first will be used to buy and sell lobsters, with lobster-processing operations beginning next year.
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