BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 6, 2025
Upward of 30 Maine fishermen have applied for just seven slots available in a short, experimental shrimp season due to start in February.The tasty, long-prized pink crustaceans have been off limits to local fishermen for a decade because of low population levels, which scientists attribute to climate change and warming waters in the Gulf of Maine. But in December, the Maine Department of Marine Resources, in cooperation with the Atlantic State Marine Fisheries Commission Northern Shrimp Board, announced it was seeking fishermen interested in participating in a special winter sampling research program to try and gauge the species’ health and population.