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National Lobster Day

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Richardson, H. C. (2026, September 26). National Lobster Day. Letters from an American. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/national-lobster-day

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September 25 marks National Lobster Day, alongside Dolly Parton Day. The article highlights lobsters' significance to Maine's coastal communities and their historical trajectory from being considered "poor man’s food" to a valuable economic resource. It also briefly touches on the early history of fishing in North America, noting its critical role in European settlement and the importance of fishing rights during the Revolutionary War.

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September 25, 2026 marks National Lobster Day and Dolly Parton Day. The lobster industry in Maine is celebrated for its cultural and economic significance, although historically it was fish that shaped New England's coastal communities until the mid-twentieth century when lobsters gained prominence. Fish were crucial to English settlement of North America, leading to what scholars call the "Fish Revolution" from 1300 to 1500 CE as European fishermen discovered abundant fishing grounds in the Atlantic, particularly cod, and moved into the Gulf of Maine by 1600. This period was marked by significant economic benefits but also devastating impacts on Indigenous populations due to introduced diseases for which they had no immunity. The Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, included an article ensuring American fishermen's rights to fish in traditional grounds off Newfoundland and elsewhere, reflecting the trade’s critical importance to New Englanders.

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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,

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September 25, 2026 September 25 is Dolly Parton Day and also National Lobster Day, honoring the cultural and economic history of the lobster industry, asserted

September → honor → industry

Lobsters have been vital to Maine’s coastal communities, but were once scorned as poor man’s food, asserted

Lobsters → scorn → food

Scholars have called the discovery of fish in the Atlantic and the trade it sparked, the “Fish Revolution,” asserted

it → call → Atlantic

tribes → mean → immunities

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. asserted

which → write → War

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