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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Maya Yang and agencies

Whole Foods decision to pull Maine lobster divides activists and politicians

A lobster rears its claws after being caught off Spruce Head, Maine.
A lobster rears its claws after being caught off Spruce Head, Maine. Photograph: Robert F Bukaty/AP

Environmental groups are once again at loggerheads with leading politicians and fishing businesses in New England in the wake of a decision by the high-end US retail giant Whole Foods to stop selling Maine lobster.

Whole Foods recently said that it will stop selling lobster from the Gulf of Maine at hundreds of its stores around the country. The company cited decisions by a pair of sustainability organizations to take away their endorsements of the US lobster fishing industry.

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