USA: Group Pays More than $3,000 To Liberate 300 Lobsters

April 12, 2007 — By Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine -- Three hundred lobsters have a new lease on life thanks to an anonymous group that secured their release in Maine.

The episode unfolded in the midst of a lobster shortage and record prices when a group of 10 young people arrived at New Meadows Lobster Pound talking about the need for "God's creatures" to be free, owner Pete McAleney told the Portland Press Herald in its Wednesday editions.

Freedom, however, came at a cost....

Source: Group Pays More than $3,000 To Liberate 300 Lobsters