PORTLAND, Maine – The billboard-sized aluminum fisherman standing outside what was the last full-time sardine cannery in the United States no longer holds an oversized tin of Beach Cliff sardines.
The hulking fisherman is now grasping an old-fashioned wooden lobster trap in his arms. The iconic sign, tall as a utility pole, has been repainted as the plant prepares to make the jump from processing sardines to processing lobsters.
Nearly 15 months after the sprawling Stinson Seafood factory in the eastern Maine town of Gouldsboro shut its doors, the plant is coming back to life.
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