7 Maine fishermen will soon go shrimping for first time in a decade

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • January 22, 2025

The Maine Department of Marine Resources has selected seven fishermen to go shrimping next month. It’s a rare opportunity — the first time in 10 years that any northern shrimp have been caught and sold in Maine. Federal regulators are launching the program while they consider changing rules that, if passed, will explore the viability of the shrimp fishery’s future more intensively than they have in a decade. But this pilot program isn’t an indication that the fishery will reopen in the near future — or, perhaps, ever.