ROCKLAND, Maine The combination of sunshine, springtime and shrimp was a splendid one for attendees of Rocklands first-ever Celebrate the Shrimp festival Saturday.
The event, which took place at various sites along Main Street, featured a shrimp cook-off, a shrimp picking and handling demonstration from Port Clyde Fresh Catch, and a showing of the movie Forrest Gump, which features both the tiny pink crustacean and the Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde.
Favorable shrimp conditions this year allowed the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to approve a longer season, which opened on Dec. 1, 2009, and will last through May 29.
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