PORTLAND — Portland Mayor Michael Brennan wants students, hospital patients and jail inmates to eat more fish — particularly, locally caught fish.

Entering the final year of his four-year term, Brennan is hoping to convince Greater Portland cafeteria operators to commit to serving local fish, an effort he said would create a stable, constant demand to boost the commercial fishing industry in Maine’s largest city.

The mayor mentioned the initiative for the first time publicly during his annual State of the City address Wednesday night, but he has been quietly trying to rally support for the large-scale, buy-local-fish effort for months.

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