PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • September 19, 2025
Three of Maine commercial fishing’s biggest players have purchased a former sardine canning factory in Prospect Harbor to launch a new seafood processing business. Curt Brown, Betsy Lowe and Pete Daley — all former coworkers at lobster processor Ready Seafood in Saco — started Bold Coast Seafood to expand Maine’s seafood processing capacities and bring jobs to the small Gouldsboro village. Building on Brown’s decades at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and Ready Seafood, the company will also run a research lab “to improve our understanding of lobsters and the lobster resource,” Brown said.