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HPP, Raw, Shucked Maine Mussels *New Product & Collaboration!*
Since 1997, Greenhead Lobster has been in the live lobster business, purchasing the daily catch from local boats. In the winter as lobsters move offshore, Greenhead purchases rock crabs and sea scallops, but at a much smaller volume than what the lobster season offers. After 20 years in the[...]
Fisherman Friday; Captain Donnie McHenan
It’s been too long since our last fisherman highlight, so we were very pleased when Donnie “Hambone” McHenan invited us over to talk about his time as a lobsterman. Rarely (if ever) called Donald, colloquially known as “Hammy” or “Hambone,” and to the masses, Donnie, shared with[...]
Hugh’s Take: Maine Lobster, Right Whales, and the Revocation of MSC Certification
The Maine lobster industry has appeared in the headlines lately, and we have been working through the complicated context and its effect on Greenhead Lobster as a business, the industry at large, and our local fishing community. We are dismayed by the revocation of MSC certification for Maine lobster and[...]
Hugh’s Take — Inflated Lobster Prices
We have been talking a lot about the pandemic it’s impact on the lobster industry supply, demand, and pricing, but unfortunately that impact is still ongoing. While it’s starting to feel like the ‘beginning of the end’ for the virus and it’s social and economic disruption, the ‘reopening’ is actually[...]
Hugh’s Take: COVID 19 Pandemic and 2021 Lobster Shortage
This has been a crazy year for lobster. All commodities, lobster included, have their ups and downs, and we have certainly had our ups and downs this past year. Right now, we are seeing historic highs for live lobster and lobster products, partly because of an the increased demand, but[...]
Hugh’s Take — The 2020 challenge continues
Pandemic Shift This has been s a unique and challenging year here in Stonington, Maine. COVID had a major impact to the start of the season. An oversupply of inventories being held for Chinese New Year flooded the domestic market with festivities cancelled and international freight and shipping to China[...]
Fisherman Friday — Pat Ryan and F/V Sea Hag II
Pat Ryan has been fishing the F/V Sea Hag II for 10 years. Pat was a boat builder by trade and built out the original F/V Sea Hag, a Flye Point 26 in ’86. Then, after Bob Williams, the Godfather of the West Bay, told him he needed a bigger[...]
Fisherman Friday — Francis Hardy and the F/V Miss Brieanna
Francis Hardy is a lifelong lobsterman. As he says, he was ‘born into it’. He has been fishing Deer Isle waters for 38 years and got his start as a kid on Eggemoggin Reach under the Deer Isle bridge in a small skiff with an outboard. From there he moved[...]
Meet the Team (and Fisherman Friday) — Leroy Weed, Sr.
Meet Leroy Weed, Sr. our newest Greenhead Employee. Leroy is the head of our new retail operation on the pier of Greenhead Lobster here in Stonington. Leroy was born and raised in Stonington, started fishing when he was 8, and has been fishing for 68 years, 23 of those as[...]