Lobster 100 years ago was so plentiful it was a food of the poor... Boston and the state of Massachusetts have a law on the books limiting the number of times each week orphans , schoolchildren and prisoners can be fed lobster.
http://gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-to-poor-people-and-prisoner-1612356919
Of course, there was a time when fish was a food of the poor as well...THAT sure isn’t true anymore!