(19 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bremen, Maine – 11 March 2025
1. Fishing boats moored in the harbor
2. Close up of a van with logo of “Downeast Dayboat”
3. Workers processing fresh scallops
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Togue Brawn, Dayboat Blue:
“Dayboat Blue is mostly frozen seafood. That is, it’s like, a like a buying club type of thing where multiple people are picking up the seafood at one location. So rather than one person paying for their seafood and all of the shipping and packaging costs, you’ve got 20 people that are splitting that shipping and packaging costs. Oh, and because it’s frozen seafood, it can be shipped less expensively."
5. Various of workers processing fresh scallops
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Togue Brawn, Dayboat Blue:
“So rather than a box, you know, a box this size for each of these going out, it’s a bag. It’s just a paper bag that can be put into a larger box, no styrofoam, I mean, I use compostable thermal insulated liners for all my boxes.”
7. Worker sorting scallops into bags
8. Close up of label being printed
9. Close up of cork board with notes pinned on them
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Yarmouth, Maine – 11 March 2025
10. Fishing boat arriving to unload catch of the day
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bremen, Maine – 11 March 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Togue Brawn, Dayboat Blue:
“The Dayboat Blue grant was provided me, or they promised they would provide me with money to establish the program to, you know, to make sure, you know, proof of concept that it would work and then to promote it.”
12. Worker pouring scallops on a counter
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Togue Brawn, Dayboat Blue:
“Like one of the chefs in New York said, you know, these are the best scallops I ever had. I know they’re worth the money. But if I, in order to pay this wholesale price, I have to charge $60 a plate. And if I put a $60 steak on my menu, everyone just assumes, oh, it’s a really good quality steak. But if I put a $60 scallop entree on my menu, they’re like, why is this guy overcharging me for scallops? Because they don’t know this quality level exists in scallops. And so, this grant funding was, I don’t know if it’s cut off or if it’s like – I have no idea what’s going on. They’re not allowed to tell me. Just when I was, I had to set up the program and I was just about to start promoting it. And education is so important. So that’s why I’m pissed off that I’m unable to do that.”
14. Fishermen’s shed
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Togue Brawn, Dayboat Blue:
“I figure right now I’m owed about $30,000. That’s not a lot in the big picture, but it’s a lot to me, you know, I bootstrapped my business by bartending.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Yarmouth, Maine – 11 March 2025
16. Various of Brawn looking at scallops
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bremen, Maine – 11 March 2025
17. Brawn loading her van
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Togue Brawn, Dayboat Blue:
“There’s the uncertainty, they haven’t even told me, like, you’re not going to get paid back. They’ve just said we’re processing only, we are currently processing requests for reimbursements incurred on or before January 19th.”
19. Close up of sign outside the building reads, “Community Shellfish”
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Togue Brawn, Dayboat Blue:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Yarmouth, Maine – 11 March 2025
21. Fishing boat arriving
22. Brawn looking at scallops brought in by a fisherman
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bremen, Maine – 11 March 2025
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Togue Brawn, Dayboat Blue:
24. Fishing boats moored in the harbor
STORYLINE:
She said it’s the uncertainty that hurts her business most.
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