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Chinese Tariffs Rock US Lobster Exports

Julie Taboh

   PORTLAND, MAINE - Tom Martin has been a lobsterman for 35 years.

   He started lobstering as a summer job when he was 14 years old, and
   then every summer until he went to college. When he dropped out of
   school after a year, he began lobstering year round.

   On this drizzly summer morning, Martin is out on his boat, the Lucky
   Catch, hauling traps out of Cascoe Bay off the southern coast of Maine.

   He says he enjoys what he does, despite the hard work.

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