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Patrick Whittle | AP

Whole Foods to stop buying Maine lobster, pleasing sustainability groups, angering the industry

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

PORTLAND, Maine  — Environmental groups are again at odds with politicians and fishermen in New England after Whole Foods, the high-end grocery giant, announced it would stop selling Maine lobsters.

Whole Foods said it will stop selling lobster from the Gulf of Maine at hundreds of its stores around the country, citing moves by two sustainability groups to take away their endorsements of the U.S. lobster-fishing industry.

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