When the cruise ships sail into Bar Harbor, they do more than drop anchor – they cheerfully drop buckets of money as well, particularly in the popular fall leaf season. In 2002, passengers aboard 64 ships spent an estimated $10.3 million in Bar Harbor, including $2.0 million in restaurants and bars, and $4.7 million in
Adventurous photographer documents glass eel migrations
If capturing the good shot means traveling to a river site after dark, donning a dry suit, lugging the underwater camera and strobe lighting equipment across slippery ledges to pools beside the river, lying down in the water and waiting patiently for the subject to appear, photographer Heather Perry of Bath is up for the
Landings are low in Canada’s Northumberland lobster fishery
The lobster fishery in the Northumberland Strait is in deep trouble, according to fishermen from New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. “It’s really bad. We had landings this low in the 1940s,” said Rory McLellan, general manager of the Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association. “Personally, I’ve never seen this kind of landings, especially with the
Maine’s most lucrative lobster zone considers limited entry
Lobster Zone D recently elected to adopt a five to one ratio for new licenses, meaning that five fishermen will have to retire before another license is issued to the next candidate on a waiting list. The idea is to reduce the number of lobstermen working in this lucrative area. Zone D had 1,253 licensed
Study: late-autumn disposal of dredged material has few effects on Penbay lobsters
In a study designed to assess the impacts of dredged sediment disposal on lobsters at the Rockland Disposal Site (RDS) in late autumn, Dr. Richard Wahle and his research team concluded that while the disposal locally altered bottom topography and may have even attracted crabs, there was no detectable effect on the lobsters in the
Court upholds ruling against salmon growers
The federal First Circuit Court of Appeals in August upheld a lower court decision ruling that will seriously curtail operations at pens belonging to Stolt Sea Farm and Atlantic Salmon of Maine. The ruling orders the two firms to phase out European hybrid salmon stocks and to “fallow” operations for the next several years. Exactly
Message in a bottle
It’s not just the title of a rather silly movie filmed largely in Maine and starring Kevin Costner: the message in a bottle is also a time-honored method by which humans attempt to communicate. But with whom? Such a marine missive is often a class project or a lark in which the writer includes an
Adopt-a-Boat
Through a classroom connection with commercial fishermen set up by the Adopt-a-Boat program, K-12 students across New England have been learning about lobster traps and lobsters, lobster and ground fishing techniques, numerous marine animals, mudflat critters and oxygen levels, ocean temperature fluctuations, the impact of groundfishing rules and regulations and a multitude of other topics
Service
Early in a budding romance, I called my intended to offer reassurance and encouragement at just the right moment. Since every moment in the budding stage is the right moment I could hardly go wrong and I didn’t. It was nervy of me, though. Her boyfriend, slow to exit, might have answered and that would
Can’t buy a ticket to ride – just yet
Passenger trains from Rockland to Bath and beyond are unlikely to start rolling any time soon, a state official confirmed. Tracy Perez, policy specialist with the Maine Department of Transportation, said it could be a year or two before you can board a mid-coastal train. And it could be 2007 before passenger rail connects with