BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 28, 2021
Lobster isn’t number one in the nation anymore. Salmon is now the United States’ highest-grossing, wild-caught domestic fishery, according to the latest report issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Science and Technology. The report, issued last week, shows salmon leaping from third to first, with lobster slipping to number two nationally. In Maine, lobster still tops the charts, with no serious rivals. Maine alone accounts for 80 percent of all American lobster landings in the United States and no other fishery comes close to its value in the state. In 2019, it represented 72 percent of the state’s entire $682 million marine fishery.