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Lions Shrimp Festival – 68th Annual
March 7 - March 8
The first Shrimp Festival was held in 1959. Today the local Fort Myers Beach Lions sponsors the Shrimp Festival every year with the pride of knowing that tourists make their vacations plans around the Festival dates. Beach businesses count on the revenue from the attention generating event and that there are residents who live and love the Festival as part of their local heritage.