Eighty-five-year-old Buddy Folino loves Stonington. Not content with a successful laser-etched granite presentation welcoming visitors to the area at the Caterpillar Hill scenic turnout on Route 15 in Sedgwick, he now wants to place a similar set of laser-etched granite blocks explaining Stonington and its varied fisheries somewhere on the town’s waterfront. He calls his
Border Troubles, East of Downeast
Residents of New Brunswick’s Campobello Island cross the border into Maine all the time, and they don’t have any choice in the matter. For most of the year, it’s the only way they can get to the rest of their country. A short bridge ties the ten-mile-long island to Lubec, the easternmost town in the
When Big Boys Camp
A kid dreams of what life could hold, in a world full of possibility, and what’s that kid say? Well, a kid of the male gender might speculate, “When I’m a big boy, I’ll…” And that way of imagining and fantasizing possibility is what the group who have dubbed themselves the Big Boys seem to
One Man’s View A lobster dealer shares his opinions – and a few secrets
“The lobster business is very complicated: what anybody says is right, depending on how you look at it,” says Portland lobster dealer Peter McAleney. The president of the Maine Lobster Dealers Association, McAleney owns and operates New Meadows Lobster, at the end of the Portland Pier, practically next door to DiMillo’s on Commercial Street in
“Gray Zone” questions persist
The Grand Manan Fishermen’s Association (GMFA) has produced a new fishery management plan for the “Gray Zone,” the disputed triangular area between Grand Manan and the Maine coast. “We’d really like it to be a joint management plan with Maine fishermen,” says GMFA project manager Melanie Sonnenberg. But that’s not likely to happen anytime soon.
Province stalls Newfoundland fish plant deal
Newfoundland’s largest seafood processor, Fishery Products International, Inc. planned to resume union talks following an impasse during which the company tried to sell one of its contentious plants but was thwarted by the province. FPI was deadlocked for months over wages in talks with the Fish, Food and Allied Workers union that represents the workers.
Northumberland Strait Lobster: Prices Down, Costs Up
The lobster fishery in the Strait of Northumberland, between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, continues to be in trouble. That’s been the case for some time. Now there’s an added negative factor: low prices and high costs. Ed Frenette, executive director of the Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association (PEIFA), says that catches this season
Tidal power proposals proliferate along Maine’s coast
A company incorporated in Wyoming and headquartered in Washington, D.C., has proposed to use the tides in the Penobscot, Kennebec and Piscataqua rivers to generate electricity. Maine Tidal Energy Company (METidal) has proposed to construct clusters of “Tidal In Stream Energy Conversion” devices, consisting of 20- to 50-foot rotating propeller blades anchored to the river
Birdsacre: Ellsworth sanctuary is getting big-boxed in
While Stan Richmond has been shingling roofs at the Birdsacre Stanwood Wildlife Sanctuary in Ellsworth, he’s had a bird’s-eye view of the symptoms of development around the sanctuary. Every morning, Richmond can spy a two-way traffic jam in front of the 200-acre bird-rehabilitation center. Traffic bottlenecks on Route 3 daily as a result of the
US businesswoman offers to buy Canadian seal hunt
The CEO of U.S. based beauty products company says a multi-million dollar offer to buy out the Canadian seal hunt on the East Coast still stands, although the Canadian federal government initially refused her offer. Cathy Kangas, founder of PRAI Beauty in New Canaan, CT, recently told a Prince Edward Island newspaper she is still