From January to spring is a poor time of year to order a shipment of lobster. It’s too cold. Lobsters don’t crawl until the water is 42 degrees F. on the ocean bottom and 46 degrees F. at the surface. By February, pretty much everyone has taken up his gear and is dubbing around in
Lobsters by Mail – Just be sure the prospective recipient(s) will be home
What do you do when someone you went to school with from second grade on tells you he misses the taste of those wonderful Maine lobsters he remembers and asks you to have some top-notch ones shipped to where he now lives? (On him, of course.) You want to make sure he gets the best
Working waterfronts are high on legislators’ agenda
The Marine Resources Committee of the Maine legislature is not considered to be a powerful committee, in the sense that the Appropriations Committee, with its authority over expenditures, is powerful. But to its members and the people they represent — fishermen and others involved with Maine’s working waterfronts — Marine Resources is the most important
Islesboro student raises funds for trip
Cameron Leach, a freshman at Islesboro Central School, has been accepted into the People to People Student Ambassador program, which promotes understanding of other cultures while building leadership qualities among high school students. Leach is raising the money necessary to travel with 40 other Maine students to Europe. Cities they’ll visit during their 20-day tour
Maine groups and others launch tsunami relief efforts
Maine commercial fishermen’s groups, community members and supporters have initiated a drive to raise money to assist tsunami affected fishermen get back out on the water. Along with massive loss of life, the wall of water that came ashore on Dec. 26 destroyed thousands of vessels in Thailand, Burma, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Andaman
Margaritaville – No wastin’ away here!
Celebrities sell. And a celebrity whose music sells escapism will surely sell shrimp. That idea prompted a group in the retail division of Ocean Cuisine to pursue Jimmy Buffett, the king of escapism, to lend the name of his most emblematic song to a line of prepared shrimp products. “It seemed to us to make
Scholarship Season
The Island Institute offers three types of scholarships including a new Island Partners Scholarship, the Traditional Island Institute Scholarship and the non-traditional student McLane Scholarship. Thanks to the support of private donors and memberships, the Institute is able to offer a variety of scholarships to residents of Maine’s 14 unbridged islands. The new Island Partners
Tagging Facts
The information gathered is not intended to estimate stock abundance, but it will provide knowledge about how cod stocks move, mix and grow. The higher the number of tags reported, the more representative and accurate the data. Certain biological data collected through this Program (e.g. growth information) can supplement the data used in current cod
Freeport’s small harbor juggles clams, recreation
Freeport’s clammers are at a crossroads. The Harraseeket River clam flats — the most productive in town — are in jeopardy of being permanently closed to harvesting because of pollution concerns from marinas and the Free-port Sewer District plant, which discharges into the harbor. A final draft report issued by the Maine Department of Marine
Coast Guard: scalloper lost at sea was over-rigged
A Maine fishing boat that sank with all hands 50 miles southeast of Nantucket was top-heavy, the Coast Guard said in its final report on the tragedy. The official investigation of the Oct. 10, 2003, disappearance of the 46-foot wooden vessel CANDY B. II fell short of definitively concluding that adding two paravanes (booms) left