TIMES RECORD • April 17, 2023
Red’s Eats lobster shack in Wiscasset opened Monday for its 85th season, drawing hundreds of customers who waited in its trademark wraparound line along Route 1, bundled up against the steady drizzle. Red’s owner Debbie Gagnon said it’s a trying time for the Maine lobster industry, which was barred from working in a 950-square-mile region off the Gulf of Maine from October to January, a result of federal regulations aimed at protecting critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Last summer, Gagnon held a fundraiser for the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, and she plans to hold another one this summer.