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Arizona lobster roll chain buys processing plant and wharf in Maine

A growing Arizona restaurant chain is snapping up pieces of Maine’s lobster industry, buying a Bailey Island wharf and now a Richmond lobster processor, so that it can keep selling cheap lobster rolls at its drive-thru locations. Angie’s Lobster bought a processing plant from Shucks Maine Lobster last month, adding to the family-owned wharf in Harpswell it purchased in late July to source lobster for the company. Angie’s officials would not say what they paid for either purchase. Representatives of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association and Maine Lobster Dealers’ Association did not return messages Wednesday evening requesting interviews about the sale. >click to read< 10:03

Maine lobster processor targeted in federal overtime lawsuit

A former employee of Richmond-based has filed a lawsuit against the lobster processor, seeking allegedly unpaid overtime and class action certification. Plaintiff Bunthoeun Perez, a Cumberland County resident, claims in the lawsuit she was not paid overtime or for her final day of work during a three-week period in May and June. The lawsuit claims that while Perez was paid a piece rate, based on the weight of prepared lobster meat, she was owed overtime pay under federal law. Read the rest here, 14:17

Lobster firm seeks processing space on Portland pier

PORTLAND — Richmond-based Shucks Maine Lobster could soon be processing seafood on the city’s working waterfront. The company wants to lease nearly 19,000 square feet of space in the city-owned Portland Ocean Terminal on the Maine State Pier. continued@portlandpressherald