PORTLAND, Maine — Lobster isn’t number one in the nation anymore.
Salmon is now the United States’ highest-grossing, wild-caught domestic fishery, according to the latest report issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Science and Technology.
The report, issued last week, shows salmon leaping from third to first, with lobster slipping to number two nationally.
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