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Lynda wrote:
> Well, that is the thing I miss about living up here in the mountains vs. 
> living down on the coast.  I'm surprised they can't get anything local in 
> Maine.  In CA, during whatever season, for example crab, you can find a 
> stand on just about every corner.
>   
We get local fish here at the foot of Penobscot Bay, either from the 
shop or from fishers direct, but  they get scarcer every year and the 
price keeps going up but we get them whenever we want.  Our fish (and 
lobster, crab, mussels as well, all called collectively fish here) come 
from the Penobscot River or Bay, from the Bay of Fundy (just a tad north 
of here) or from the Gulf of Maine, all of which are considered "local". 
  I've never looked in the grocery store, no clue what they have there. 
Somewhere near here folks get farm-raised salmon but I don't like that 
stuff, texture awful.  I think that comes from up by Machiasport or 
maybe as far as Eastport (up by NB/NS).  In years we're allowed to fish 
for it, we get that ourselves.

Susan Jane, enjoying drying sliced apples in sunny Maine