GOULDSBORO, Maine — A Connecticut-based lobster company hopes to bring lobster processing back to eastern Maine after submitting the winning bid to buy a defunct lobster-processing plant that previously housed the nation's last full-time sardine cannery.
Dave Garbo, the owner of Garbo Lobster, had the high bid of $900,000 Wednesday for the cavernous plant and a 58-foot pier in Gouldsboro, said Tranzon Auction Properties Vice President Mike Carey.
Garbo Lobster will co-own the plant with East Coast Seafood, a lobster distributor based in Lynn, Mass., with plans to eventually re-open it for lobster processing, Dave Garbo said. East Coast Seafood has other processing facilities in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
The plant will need investment, with state and federal assistance, to make it a viable venture, Garbo told the Bangor Daily News. But he and East Coast Seafood CEO Michael Tourkistas are optimistic, he said.
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