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World’s Biggest Lobster Roll?

What’s the trickiest thing about making the world’s longest lobster roll? A hint: It has nothing to do with lobster. “I think the hardest part is probably going to make sure the bun comes out correctly,” said Alan A. Casucci, … Continue reading

Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine Attempts World’s Longest Lobster Roll

Look out for Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine as they make a Guinness World Record Attempt! Their feat will involve assembling and authenticating the World’s Longest Lobster Roll: A 60 foot long Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine Lobster Roll!!

Maine Lobster Promotion Council Officially Appointed to Certify World’s Longest Lobster Roll

Guinness World Record™ Attempt to Take Place at the 36th Annual Old Port Festival on June 7, 2009 in Portland, Maine Portland, Maine—The Maine Lobster Promotion Council’s Executive Director, Dane Somers, along with Portland’s Mayor, Jill Duson have been appointed … Continue reading

Granddaughter of famous retailer L.L. Bean hopes to elevate the Maine lobster

What’s more synonymous with Maine than the lobster? If you’re a shopper, you might think instead of L.L. Bean, the Freeport outdoor store that sells all things well made. Linda Bean, the granddaughter of the retailer’s founder, is combining the … Continue reading

Mainers find clever ways to hawk lobster

Times are tough for our many-legged ocean-dwelling friends, Homarus americanus — the American lobster. But times are even tougher for our two-legged, dock-dwelling friends, Traphaulinus mainerus — the Maine lobsterman. Increased fuel and bait prices, decreased consumer demand in the … Continue reading

Linda Bean launches new way to promote Maine’s lobster industry

PORT CLYDE, ME – Linda Bean brings a famous name and a passion for her home state to the challenge of helping achieve the desirable ‘eco’ label of the London-based Marine Stewardship Council to Maine’s lobster industry. The certification drive, … Continue reading

SKF Interview: Linda Bean’s Lobstering in the Future

Creating new ways to keep an old industry thriving long into the future. That’s very much the challenge with Maine’s lobster industry these days. In October 2008, for example, Governor John Baldacci created a new Task Force dedicated to that … Continue reading

Is “green” certification an answer?

Maine’s lobster industry, facing a “Perfect Storm” of economic and regulatory challenges, is partway through the process of achieving certification as a sustainable fishery, led by an enthusiastic group of processors and harvesters. Not everyone in the lobstering business is … Continue reading

Lobster prices tank as diners claw back spending

PORTLAND, Maine — The price of Maine lobster, which accounts for 80 percent of the U.S. catch, is tanking. The primary factor, a drop-off in demand by penny-pinching diners, has been in place since summer. But a secondary problem recently … Continue reading

Lobster buyer a proponent of more local processing

PORT CLYDE, Maine — Linda Bean, president of Port Clyde Lobster, has identified a weakness in the lobster industry’s current financial difficulties. “The problem is not low production, as some earlier predicted,” she said in a recent e-mail to the … Continue reading