The Portland Press Herald reports that a group of high-level Chinese business leaders will visit key players from Maine’s lobster, aquaculture and wild blueberry industries Friday with independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler. Here is an excerpt:
“The biggest problem we have in Maine is not the quality of the product we produce but developing the export market and developing the Maine brand,” Cutler said.
The group has a full schedule for Friday, starting on a lobster boat in Casco Bay before touring Portland Shellfish Co. and meeting with industry representatives. Then come visits to Jasper Wyman & Sons’ wild blueberry operations in Cherryfield and Deblois and Maine Halibut Farms in Franklin.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity to get to know a little bit, get some contacts and see how the networks develop from there,” said Dane Somers, executive director of the Maine Lobster Promotion Council.
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