MLA Business Member Spotlight: Look Lobster Co.

Look Lobster Company in Jonesport was started in 1910 by two brothers who were also sea captains, Oscar W. and Bert S. Look. The two men started selling groceries, general goods, and marine supplies from their wharf on Old House Point. In time the men also started marketing what the local fishermen caught to customers throughout New England. Their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren built the business slowly and steadily. Today Look Lobster is managed by the fifth generation of Looks and has locations in Addison, Eastport, and Portland.

The Lobster Looker heading out.

“I met Sunshine [MLA membership director] and talked with her this summer,” said Bimbo Look, company president. “I knew about the MLA and figured we ought to be a member.”

The company has diversified since its beginning. Look Lobster sells wholesale and retail lobster and crab, provides cold storage trucking services, sells lobster bait, and provides marine services for commercial and recreational vessels. Two of the company’s wharves were damaged during the January storms this year. The Eastport wharf lost close to 48 feet to the storms; its restaurant remained closed this summer. The Jonesport wharf was severely damaged, losing approximately 400 feet during the storms.

Despite such setbacks, Look Lobster Company remains dedicated to what it has done successfully for more than 100 years: supplying the best live lobster and crab to customers around the world. Being an MLA business member will help keep the company current on the major issues facing the Maine lobster fishery.

“I listen to stuff and try to pay attention to it all,” Look said. “But I trust you guys to keep me abreast of things.”

Look Lobster Company

32 Old House Point Road

Jonesport, ME 04649

207-497-2353

www.looklobster.com

looklobster@myfairpoint.net