“As far as I’m concerned, there are exactly two great things about living on the Maine Coast in January: 1) empty 2) shrimp.
Leslie Land, in “Everybody Loves Maine Shrimp,’’ in the January 1995 issue of Yankee magazine
Sadly, harvesting Maine shrimp is now banned to try to conserve what’s left of the long-depleted stocks of the tasty creatures in the Gulf of Maine.