Where in Maine?
If you're the largest sardine cannery in the eastern United States, in fact the only remaining sardine cannery on the eastern seaboard, you've earned the right to have a gigantic, sou'wester-wearing fisherman as your symbol. Especially if you're located in a photogenic community along the Maine coast. The canning business in these parts dates back to the 1870s when the Franco-Prussian War interrupted the international trade in sardines and a clever Down East entrepreneur realized he could provide New Englanders with fish they could no longer import from France.
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