“Our issues are really very unique. So we wanted the ability to set a comfortable environment, knowing that not everybody knows the ins and outs of lobstering and fisheries management.”

Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, explaining why a meeting between the five candidates for governor and lobster fishermen’s groups held Oct. 4 in Searsport was closed to the press and the public.

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