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March 12, 2010

Baldacci, Bumble Bee CEO
meet at cannery

The Associated Press

PROSPECT HARBOR — Gov. John Baldacci has met with the top executive of Bumble Bee Foods to discuss potential future uses for the company's sardine cannery in eastern Maine that is slated to close next month.

The governor and CEO Chris Lischewski met this morning at the 100-year-old plant in Prospect Harbor.

San Diego-based Bumble Bee announced last month it is shutting down the plant, which is the last sardine cannery in the U.S. Bumble Bee says its decision was driven by deep cuts in recent years in the catch limits for herring.

Baldacci then met with cannery workers after his meeting with Lischewski. About 130 workers are expected to lose their jobs.

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