December 19, 2024 — The New England shrimp fishery will open for a limited harvest this winter, for the first time in a decade.
Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts fishermen will be allowed to harvest 58,400 pounds of shrimp. The allowable catch is well below the 10 million pounds that fishermen were harvesting nearly 15 years ago.
But the Atlantic Marine States Fisheries Commission said an industry-funded sampling pilot could provide valuable research about the fishery in a warming Gulf of Maine.