Fresh Maine seafood trucked to Oconee

An enterprising young couple from Maine has found the Seneca area and other parts of Upstate South Carolina have an appetite for lobster and other fresh seafood, and that’s why Michael Crowley makes regular trips back and forth.  Crowley returns in a truck packed with lobster, scallops, crab meat and the like.  In Oconee, they Crowleys periodically station their seafood truck just off 123, the Seneca-Clemson Corridor across from Lake Keowee Dodge.  Telling was a rainy scene last Thursday. People waited patiently to place their orders, many smiling in anticipation.  Michael and Carlie Crowley know the seafood business.  Generations ago Michael’s family arrived by boat on the Atlantic shore of northeast Maine and an island that is now called Crowley Island. Michael makes 1,200-mile round trips between Seneca and Bar Harbor where he chooses lobster and other seafood off boats, some of which are manned by relatives and fishermen friends, while Carlie Crowley stays behind in Seneca handling the business end.  Someday the Crowleys hope to transform their seafood truck business to a store building in Seneca.