February 8, 2023 — The U.S. lobster industry is clawing to keep their livelihoods and sounding off on a potentially “devastating” legal battle against environmental groups funded by big bucks from liberal, dark money groups.
“It seems like there’s always a battle in this industry,” Lobster 207 CEO Mike Yohe said on “Fox & Friends First” Tuesday. “They have deep pockets, so they just file another lawsuit to get us out of the water or change gear or change how we fish in the state of Maine.”
“The lobster industry is all we have here. And a lot of our coastal towns in my town, that’s pretty much what everybody does,” fourth-generation lobsterman Dustin Delano added on “Fox & Friends.” “If you’re not a lobster boat captain, you work on a lobster boat or you are involved in the supply chain, or you sell bait to the lobstermen, or you sell vehicles to lobstermen or in their crews. It’s just one of our number one things here in Maine, and this coast would be completely devastated without it.”
A recent Fox News Digital review of tax filings found environmental groups that have led litigation targeting the lobster fishing industry have been heavily funded by various liberal dark money groups that don’t disclose their individual donors.