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.