Canada’s ratification of the United Nations Fish Agreement (UNFA) took effect in January. Immediately, opposition critics of the federal government raised questions about Ottawa’s ability to enforce it. During a January visit to Newfoundland, federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Geoff Regan went on a surveillance flight with Newfoundland/Labrador Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Trevor Taylor out
“I Done Well”: Conary Cove Lobster Co. Survives and Thrives
“If we could row, we had traps out,” declared Basil Heanssler of his start in the lobster business. The youngest of three sons of a Sunshine Island poundkeeper, he’d hauled those first traps at age six or seven. (Sunshine is connected to Deer Isle as is Little Deer Isle, by a winding, boulder-lined causeway.) Heanssler
As Fewer Fishermen Land More Fish, Shoreside Businesses Wither
A few years after groundfisherman Cameron McLellan was married, he and his wife bought a tract of land in Edgecomb near Route One and built themselves a home. “My father was furious,” McLellan remembers. “He couldn’t understand why I wanted to be out of Boothbay Harbor.” A sixth-generation fisherman, McLellan was looking to the future.
Fairwinds Creates Challenges
I want to commend the selectmen of Harpswell, for a job extremely well done in negotiating for us residents, the best possible deal with Fairwinds. If our state legislature, which in my opinion has been malfunctioning since the 1950’s, took its responsibilities half as seriously as our current selectmen have taken theirs, then Maine would
Willy, Free at Last
Willy, free at last Readers of Island Journal may recall my 2001 story on Keiko, the whale star of the 1993 movie “Free Willy,” who trainers were trying to reintroduce to the wild after a lifetime in captivity. Keiko’s story came to an end in Norway Dec. 12, when his handlers discovered him lying dead
Caucusin’ Collectively
Unique is an overused word. It should only be used to describe things like Vinalhaven’s political caucusing because this island community caucuses Republicans and Democrats together, simultaneously, in the same room, and has for nearly a decade. That’s unique! Admittedly the Democrats are much more organized and energized, particularly this year, and so they kind
Horrified
[addressed to Rusty Warren] Dear Rusty: I have always enjoyed reading your articles in Working Waterfront. I was horrified to read about what happened to your dear cat and what didn’t happen to the perps. You are entirely justified in wanting to know is “Something Wrong here?” The answer is – obviously yes! I was
Alive and Well
To the editor: In yesterday’s mail we received The Working Waterfront and in reading through the Reviews on page 23, discovered something that really should be corrected. The review of The Island’s True Child, review written by Robin de Campi, states and I quote: “The Island’s True Child is taken from Dorothy Simpson’s unpublished journals
CEI’s Role
To the editor: Great article on the York Land Trust Sewall Dock deal…I wanted to make a correction: CEI financed a portion of the land trust’s purchase, not Mark and Jeff. They obtained financing through Farm Credit of Maine. Elizabeth Sheehan Coastal Enterprises, Inc. Portland
Small Libraries Serve Maine’s Peninsulas and Islands
On a frigid January morning, Michele Moran, librarian at Totman Memorial Library in Phippsburg, and Inga Cesh, a library volunteer, gather their materials for the weekly children’s story and craft hour, which begins at 10. Despite the challenging weather, five mothers arrive with children ages 2 to 5, as well as Charlie and Marilyn Stevens,