(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 reading (English) “Downeast Dayboat”
3. Workers processing fresh scallops
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Togue Brawn, Dayboat Blue:
“Dayboat Blue is mostly frozen seafood, like a buying club type of thing where multiple people are picking up the seafood at one location. 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. Workers processing fresh scallops
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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 notes on a cork board
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. Worker pouring scallops on a counter
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Togue Brawn, Dayboat Blue:
“The Dayboat Blue grant was provided me, or they were 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. Like one of the chefs in New York said, you know, these are the best scallops I’ve 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, I’ve 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.”
13. Fishermen’s shed
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Yarmouth, Maine – 11 March 2025
14. Various of Brawn looking at scallops
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bremen, Maine – 11 March 2025
15. Brawn loading her van
16. Close up of a sign reads, “Community Shellfish”
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Togue Brawn, Dayboat Blue:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Yarmouth, Maine – 11 March 2025
18. Fishing boat arriving
19. Brawn looking at scallops brought in by a fisherman
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bremen, Maine – 11 March 2025
20. Close up of bags of scallops
21. Fishing boats moored in the harbor
STORYLINE:
Commercial fishermen and seafood processors and distributors seeking to convert to new, lower-carbon emission business model said they are finding federal funding they were counting on for the work is frozen or unavailable in the wake of sweeping budget cuts touted by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The cut is having an impact on a seafood processor and distributor such as Togue Brawn in Bremen, Maine.
Brawn said she received a little more than half of a USDA grant of about $350,000 before learning the rest might not arrive.
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