National Lobster Day

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September 25, 2026

September 25 is Dolly Parton Day and also National Lobster Day,
National Lobster Day honors the cultural and economic history of
the lobster industry, Lobsters have been vital to Maine’s coastal
communities, but were once scorned as poor man’s food, It was
fish that were central to the English settlement of North
America, Scholars have called the discovery of fish in the
Atlantic and the trade it sparked, the “Fish Revolution,” Fishing
meant big money and British fishermen fished the Grand Banks and
had moved into the Gulf of Maine by 1600, European fishermen
brought diseases for which the Indigenous populations had no
immunities and tribes were wiped out, The fish trade was so
important to New Englanders that access to fishing grounds was
written into the third article of the Treaty of Paris, which
officially ended the Revolutionary War.

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