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Slowing consumption and competition has led to the last of the U.S. sardine canneries coming to and end.
For the past 135 years, sardine canneries have been as much a part of Maine's small coastal villages as the thick Down East fog. It's been estimated that more than 400 canneries have come and gone along the state's long, jagged coast.The lone survivor, the Stinson Seafood plant here in this eastern Maine shoreside town, shuts down this week after a century in operation. It is the last sardine cannery not just in Maine, but in the United States.
Last US sardine cans being packed in MaineI can't say I've ever tasted sardines. Anyone like them?
Had them once and hated them. Can't say I will shed a tear for not being able to eat American sardines but the plants closing does kind of mark the end of an era doesn't it?
I've had them and they're pretty good (and good for you). I'm surprised Maine has the last cannery. I thought maybe there'd be some in the Chesapeake Bay area too.I just looked at the ones I have and they are packaged in Canada.
I've had them and they're pretty good (and good for you). I'm surprised Maine has the last cannery. I thought maybe there'd be some in the Chesapeake Bay area too.I just looked at the ones I have and they are packaged in Canada.
Maine HAD the last cannery. The fact that yours were packaged in Canada is probably why they are past-tense now. ;D
