A new owner for longtime fish market in Kennebunkport
The Kennebunkport-based Port Lobster is under new ownership after 63 years, as its owner, Sonny Hutchins, has sold the fish market to Kennebunkport Selectman Allen Daggett.
This won’t be the first foray into the retail fishing industry for Daggett, who also owns Cape Porpoise Lobster Co. Inc., Cape Pier Chowder House and Cape Porpoise Bait Co., according to the York County Coast Star.
Like many other Maine natives, Daggett also began fishing for lobster at the age of 12 until his early 20s, when he began selling the crustaceans as Daggett’s Lobster Company in 1969. Hutchins also shares a similar lobster-filled life, learning about the business from his father before he founded Port Lobster in 1953.
“I had been in the lobstering business before I went into the Army, I grew up in it, my father was a lobsterman for 44 years and then I fished too. I thought by doing this I would be getting into the easier part of it — but I found out it wasn’t,” Hutchins told the Coast Star.
Although the fish market is under new ownership, Hutchins and Daggett told the County Star that there won’t be any noticeable changes and that all of employees at Port Lobster will remain.
“I’m not worried about a thing. It will be business as usual,” Daggett told the Coast Star. “When you walk in and do business here, you’ll never know anything changed at all. Sonny has been good to me over the years, and I feel real good about buying this place.”
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