POLITICO • 29, 2022
Maine’s Senate delegation is seeing red over the recent decision by Whole Foods to not source lobsters from the Gulf of Maine due to two groups downgrading the fishery’s sustainability ratings. Our friends at Morning Agriculture dove into this. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) called the move by Whole Foods “a tragic mistake” on Monday night. He criticized the data used by the outside groups, saying they are “stirring this up without regard to the facts, the data, the science or the impact on real people.” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) called it “totally unfair and a major problem.”