Maine Shrimp Trappers Association

10/30/2018

Arlington, VA - Maine has scheduled a public hearing to gather public input on Draft Addendum I to Amendment 3 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Northern Shrimp. The details of the hearing follow.

10/24/2017

http://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/fishing_industry_news/if-shrimp-fishery-reopens-maine-to-get-lion-s-share/article_4718f3ea-c097-5cd8-bbde-3f923785bffd.html

The Gulf of Maine, closed since 2014 to shrimp fishermen, will operate under strict state allocations when and if it ever reopens to sh*****ng.

05/14/2013

2013 Membership Dues are due June 1! Don't forget to send them in!

05/10/2013

Today is National Shrimp Day!! Eat Shrimp!!'

02/15/2013

Just came across this article....
http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/78900-big-business-trapped-shrimp

Sustainability was a novel concept when Alen Newell and his dad Mike started knocking on doors at better seafood shops and restaurants to promote trapped shrimp from the Canso area of Chedabucto Bay.

02/15/2013

Our page reached 1638 people last week alone!!! That is just amazing!!! EAT TRAPPED SHRIMP!!!!!!

02/14/2013

Shrimp landings thus far .....
http://www.maine.gov/dmr/rm/shrimp/2013landings.htm

See the tables below, trawler landings at the top of the page, and trapper landings at the bottom. Data are from dealer reports received to date, and must be considered Very Preliminary and Incomplete. Note that dealer reports do not include shrimp sold directly to retailers or consumers or kept fo...

02/14/2013

TONIGHTS BOD MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

02/06/2013

Just want to say Thank You to the Marine Resource Committee for inviting us to come and meet with them and allowing us to present valuable information about the MSTA and the shrimp trap industry.

02/05/2013

SHRIMP SEASON IS OFFICIALLY OPEN!!! HAPPY SH*****NG TRAPPERS!!!!

02/03/2013

Just a reminder... YOU CAN SET YOUR TRAPS TODAY!! You can haul on February 5th and are allow to land 500 pounds. The wardens will be allowing 5 1/2 trays - this is how they will be determining the 500 pounds if you are boarded. Also a reminder that Stephenie Pinkham is working with DMR to collect landings data, trappers are to report their daily catch to Stephenie. You can contact her at 837-1458 (call or text) or by email at [email protected]. Please have your landings number available when you call for the first time. Thank you! NOW LETS GO SH*****NG!! EAT TRAPPED SHRIMP!!!!

01/28/2013

Trappers may set baited gear on Feb 3 and haul on Feb 5 .... as of today. Subject to change.