For eight weeks this fall, the research vessel ALICE SIEGMUND of Rockland has been towing a plankton net once a week, searching for fingernail-size larval lobsters. Marine research staff from the Island Institute have been carrying out the fieldwork under the direction of Dr. Lewis Incze of the University of Southern Maine Biosciences Research Institute.
Working Waterfronts
“A private nuisance action may not be maintained against a person engaged in a commercial fishing activity or commercial fishing operation,” states Maine’s 2001 “right to fish” law, “so long as the activity or operation is undertaken in compliance with applicable licensing and permitting requirements …” The fishing industry, it would seem, is protected against
The Sanford Casino
The proposal to build a casino-hotel complex in Sanford, an inland community, wouldn’t be of much interest on the coast if it weren’t so large. But at the scale its developers envision, the effects of a casino will inevitably spread far and wide, affecting communities hundreds of miles away. Coastal towns already hard-pressed by rising
The many contributions of Land Trusts
To the editor: Dave Barrett’s letter to the editor in the September 2003 issue of The Working Waterfront gives those of us in the land trust community an opportunity to talk about some of the many ways we “contribute to the people who maintain and inhabit this coast,” in Dave’s words, and join in the
Splendid attire
To the editor: I enjoy reading your excellent publication during the summer months which my wife and I spend in our summer home on Chebeague Island. The content of the newspaper is both informing, and entertaining and, even after some 34 summers on Chebeague I usually learn something new. However I was surprised and disappointed
Spurling for dessert
To the editor: The arrival of The Working Waterfront in the day’s mail is an event to make my day, even better than that first cup of coffee. I read it cover to cover but save The Cranberry Report by Captain Ted Spurling, Sr., as dessert. I thoroughly enjoy his journal, his observations, notes. He
Smooth surgeon
To the editor: I am a boatbuilder from Vinalhaven, and very recently had one of my knees replaced by Dr. Roger Wickenden at Pen Bay hospital. He was some smooth. Since then I have been in rehab at Windward Gardens in Camden. I am writing this as a way to thank the staff at Windward
Beaming down
Larry Mayer will always remember the day he showed Nova Scotia scallop fishermen what his high-tech sonar mapping technology could do. Mayer, then at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, displayed his team’s new high-resolution, three-dimensional model of a Browns Bank – a key scallop fishing ground – on a 12-by-12-foot glass screen in
Vinalhaven’s new school opens
A series of photos highlights Vinalhaven’s newly constructed school, pictured at right.Although the grounds are still under construction and SAD 8 has not yet officially taken possession, the building is mostly finshed. Other photos show students enjoying the new comfortable reading chairs in the library, the cafeteria, and the bridge connecting the high school to
Southport Island couple will install watermakers in island homes
The name of the original business asks YWorry? But the owners of YWorry Marine Services also seem to operate on the “why not?” principle. Not long ago, Tom and Sue Tiller asked themselves: Why not use boat watermakers to create fresh water from salt water for island houses? Not surprisingly, they already had the answer.