The first year Charlie Langston attended the International Boston Seafood Show as COO of the new startup Shucks Maine Lobster, he found himself walking the floor with CEO John Hathaway and a cooler full of raw lobster meat, which they would show to interested buyers.
Weve come a long way since then, Langston says.
This year, Shucks was one of only a small handful of Maine companies that had a booth on the floor of the trade show, which attracts more than 17,000 buyers and sellers from 90 countries. The five or so Maine companies with booths were lost in a sea of thousands, and overshadowed by pavilions promoting seafood companies from Alaska, Louisiana and Florida.
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