BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 20, 2021
Days after a federal appeals court reinstated a seasonal closure of nearly 1,000 square miles of offshore lobstering grounds, fishermen in the state’s busiest lobster fishing port are in a holding pattern. “Everybody’s idling right now,” Bill Damon, owner of Damon Family Lobster Co., said Friday. “They are trying to figure out what they have to do.” Stonington has been Maine’s top lobstering port for years and last year hauled in more than $43 million worth of the lucrative catch.