The tension between fishermen and policy makers during a Nov. 15 public hearing was evident as a standing-room-only audience heard words not uttered since 1978, the last time the shrimp fishery was closed for a season. The initial recommendation made by the ASMFC Technical Committee based on the estimated size and distribution of current northern
New England Cooking: Seasons and Celebrations
Here is a cookbook to help you over the what-to-have-for-dinner blues in any season or on any occasion. In February, pick up the book and start with the first chapter to progress through maple syrup and sugar and on into April and May for rhubarb, asparagus and fiddleheads. If you get the book for Christmas,
Yuletide Murder in Eastport
What’s Christmas in Eastport without a good murder? Well, for resident amateur detective Jacobia Tiptree, the holiday season is definitely not complete. And she goes about solving it masterfully in Sarah Graves’ latest mystery, Wreck the Halls. Not surprisingly, this one is beautifully constructed, with a host of suspects, all of them logical and all
Proceedings: The Coast Guard Journal of Safety at Sea
Proceedings: The Coast Guard Journal of Safety at Sea The fatal STARBOUND-VIRGO collision of Aug. 5 made those who work on the water acutely aware of safety issues. Gloucester fisherman and journalist Peter K. Prybot spoke for many when he posed such questions as: Did fatigue play a factor? Could the Russian crewmember on watch
The World According to Pimm
Reviewed by Philip W. Conkling This is a tour de force of almost numbing thoroughness, cataloging the indignities that we have heaped upon the world’s terrestrial and marine ecosystems. It will be hard to dispute David Pimm’s figures Ñ one can only hope that his careful accounting for all the tons of biomass and lost
Safety concerns prompt calls for new lobsterboat racing rules
Those lighter boats aren’t safe, Gove and others said, and, to their sorrow, they were right. What they had long dreaded came true in Searsport on Aug. 26, when, in a choppy sea, James West’s recreational racing boat WILD WILD WEST became airborne at what Beals boat-builder Calvin Beal reportedly clocked at 46.5 mph. It
GoMOOS system in action
I check the NWS marine weather web site to see if the forecast has changed overnight. Nope. Winds backing through NE to a NW gale by evening. I check the GoMOOS buoy off Owl’s Head and see the wind is still ESE so it’s got some time before it shifts to NW and then some
Grand Manan has market worries, too
“It just wasn’t the same this year,” Sonnenberg says. “There wasn’t the enthusiasm that there’s been in past seasons. Usually, they’re really pumped; this year it was pretty subdued.” On that same day, the Bangor Daily News published a photo of a Peaks Island lobsterman stacking his traps even though his season isn’t over yet.
Government approves grant to disease-pressed salmon farmers
The grant will be administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service. Announcement of the initial approval was made jointly by Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. “Approval of strong salmon indemnification funding by the Bush Administration demonstrates that infectious salmon anemia poses a tremendous challenge, and that the Administration takes
Beware the Clubbed Tunicate!
The creature is officially known as the Clubbed Tunicate, and the official DFO advisory reads as follows: “A large population increase of a marine animal known as a ‘Clubbed Tunicate’ has been detected in the southeastern portion of Prince Edward Island. These organisms present no health or other dangers to the public but rather the