PORTLAND, Maine—Eric Pray is used to shipping seafood all over the country. But since the coronavirus took hold, he has shifted his focus closer to home—selling lobsters from a homemade tank in his garage.
Pray, of Portland, Maine, is one of hundreds of fishermen, farmers, and food producers who have shifted to a direct-to-consumer model amid the virus outbreak. The pandemic has stressed and sometimes disrupted supply chains, shuttered restaurants, and changed the way consumers buy food, leaving some producers scrambling for a new way to reach their customers.
