09-05-2025
Fishermen battling with changing oceans chart new course after Trump's push to deregulate
STONINGTON, Maine — Virginia Olsen has pulled lobsters from Maine's chilly Atlantic waters for decades while watching threats to the state's lifeblood industry mount.
Trade imbalances with Canada , tight regulations on fisheries and offshore wind farms towering like skyscrapers on open water pose three of those threats, said Olsen, part of the fifth generation in her family to make a living in the lobster trade.
