ROCKLAND, Maine — The owners of two seasonal food trucks are sharply critical of what they say were heavy-handed tactics by the Maine Lobster Festival .

The owner of Mac Attack said his food truck was moved to a far end of Harbor Park behind a large bounce house and next to portable toilets after he refused to take lobster off his menu during the five-day festival.

And the owner of Amato’s food truck said he had to pay the festival $8 for every lobster roll he sold or a large obstruction would have been placed in front of his truck.

Richard Curtis, who operates Mac Attack for the fifth year at Buoy Park, said he refused the festival’s directive to stop selling lobster during the Festival.

“I’m a generational fisherman. Lobster is our mascot and lobster is a big item on our menu,” Cur

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