The research vessel WEATHERBIRD II from Bermuda visited the Penobscot Bay region in July and August for maintenance work at Rockland Marine, followed by a research cruise sampling the larval stages of lobsters. The objective of this cruise, sponsored by the Bigelow Laboratory for Marine Sciences in Boothbay Harbor, was to measure the vertical distribution
“Unique Australian Products:” Australia seeks new seafood markets in the U.S.
In the face of many obstacles – or perhaps because of them – Australian seafood suppliers are focusing their attention on the American market for a much larger share of their exports. Australian seafood companies opted not to attend the annual International Boston Seafood Show last March, but the Australian government did send a representative.
New Brunswick-PEI Bridge blamed for lobster decline
Lobster hauls in the Northumberland Strait in the Maritimes are bad and getting worse, and a fisherman out of Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick, is blaming the Confederation Bridge between his province and Prince Edward Island. “This was a bad season,” said Gary O’Hanley who’s been fishing for more than 40 years. “But the truth of
New study: declining fisheries have hurt Nova Scotia women’s health
It’s no secret that a declining or collapsed fishery has a ripple effect on home ports and communities. Now a group of Nova Scotia women has produced a study on how women’s health is affected. “Women’s Health and Well-being in Six Nova Scotia Fishing Communities” has been published by the Canadian Research Institute for the
Not Alone: The haunting of Islesboro
Perhaps due to their remoteness and resultant romantic allure, islands possess an air of mystery that’s always made me suspect that islanders must have scores of stories to tell of haunted houses and other paranormal phenomena. Islesboro, for instance, has no shortage of intriguing tales of ghostly presences and mysterious places where, on nightly strolls,
The Maine Land Bank: An idea whose time has come
The Maine Land Bank proposal has caught the attention of television and radio stations as well as the Maine Sunday Telegram and the Portland Press Herald, and now it is catching fire in communities throughout the State of Maine. The Maine Land Bank’s goals are simple. This innovative program will create demographic stability in a
Reverse!
Reverse gears have come a long way ahead in the last century. In 1925, a red-painted, single-cylinder Lathrop engine crouched in the cabin of our first sloop. Its cylinder was the size of a nail keg and its ignition system was a primitive make-and-break rig that ran on a battery controlled by a knife switch.
Fed Exing to work
High-powered consultants and the self-employed bask and multiply on Peaks Island. First lured as summer visitors from that place we call “away,” they then purchased simple houses as second homes. Then, thanks to cell phone, fax, e-mail, laptops and a nearby airport, they made the grand decision to shed the frantic pace of their former
Sprawl
If you’ve driven from Waldoboro to Thomaston on Route 1 in recent years, you may remember the signs as you passed through the pastoral landscape of southern Warren. There you found yourself on “old” Route 1, a quiet two-lane road meandering through woods and hayfields, a 1930s-era highway where lots of trees and many homes
“You from away?” Tagging study may show where lobsters are born
A novel lobster study is underway in Muscongus Bay that focuses on the location and movements of egg-bearing female lobsters. The two-year project is funded by the Northeast Consortium, and depends on collaboration between The Lobster Conservancy (TLC) of Friendship and a group of Friendship lobstermen. Lobsters generally mate in the summer after the female