BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 17, 2022
Though many seaside restaurants and roadside seafood shacks bear the name, Maine’s traditional lobster pounds — the human-made tidal enclosures that have stored lobsters along the coast for more than 100 years — have largely gone dormant in the past decade. For decades, the pounds made up a majority of all the lobster storage in the state and were a lynchpin in keeping a steady flow of live lobsters in the marketplace. But now they are being relegated to living relics, a victim of climate change, emerging technology and harsh economics.