The phrase “and do it fast” does not appear among a handful of recommendations listed in a draft of a letter that a lobster industry task force plans to forward to the governor, but the idea came up repeatedly during the task force’s final meeting.
Two of the recommendations — creating a new, larger marketing research and operations entity and developing a marketing campaign to pursue during the intensive fishing season this fall — need to be acted upon quickly, people at the meeting said Wednesday.
Having drafted its recommendations, the Governor’s Task Force on the Economic Sustainability of Maine’s Lobster Industry plans to finish the wording of the letter electronically, send it to the governor, then hand off its recommendations to a transition team that would start pursuing them.