Counterfeit Maine Lobsters?

I shopped at a local supermarket that advertised a sale of fresh Maine lobsters. But when I spoke to the clerk, I learned the lobsters didn't actually come from Maine. He smiled and said, "Well that's just what they call them."

The word scam popped into my mind, and the clerk must have picked up on it, and he added all lobsters from the waters of Newfoundland to North Carolina are called Maine Lobsters.

So sellers take advantage of the solid reputation established by the Maine Lobster industry and advertise their lobsters as being from Maine even if they weren't harvested there.

In the case of the photo, these actually are Maine lobsters. They're two pounders and freshly harvested from a small fishing village on the coast a couple of miles from Acadia National Park.

Herb