UMaine Lobster Institute, Internet Lobster Sales Company Team Up to Help Industry
Contact: Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777; Bob Bayer, (207) 581-2785; Dan Zawacki, (800) Live-Lob or (800) 548-3562
Supply may be up and price may be down causing those in the lobster industry some stress, but the University of Maine Lobster Institute and a company with local ties are trying to give business a little boost.
Lobster Gram, the largest Internet marketer of live lobster, has teamed up with the Lobster Institute, a non-profit lobster research and service organization, to come to the aid of Maine’s lobster industry by offering a blowout sale of live lobsters.
Lobster Gram is currently offering their “Lobster Gram” namesake live lobster package for discounts of up to 50 percent. Additionally, a portion of proceeds from this bailout sale also will help support the sustainability efforts of the Lobster Institute.
“Just like the big banks, lobster fishermen and their families are in trouble because of our weak economy. The boat price a lobsterman gets for his lobster has nose-dived in the last few weeks,” says Dan “the Lobster Man” Zawacki, chairperson and founder of Lobster Gram. “We want to help the lobster industry by helping them move some lobsters and then pass the savings on to our customers. The lobstermen are our friends, and we want to help them.”
Lobster Gram ships its live lobster all over the United States from its warehouse in Biddeford, Maine; and has its corporate offices in Chicago.
“Dan and the folks at Lobster Gram have been good friends of the Lobster Institute and the lobster fishery,” Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute said. “Their willingness to help fund the lobster health studies and other sustainability efforts of the Lobster Institute through this sale is just another example of that.”
To take part in this Lobster Bailout-Blowout, visit the Lobster Gram Website at www.livelob.com. Information about the Lobster Institute is available at www.lobsterinstitute.org.