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Vinalhaven rowers take honors at Woodenboat show race
Pilot gig rowing teams from Vinalhaven took first and second places in a race hosted by Atlantic Challenge at the Woodenboat Show in Rockland. Six boats competed in the race, including two teams from Saquish, Massachusetts, a crew from Belfast, and a team of New York City youths from a group called Rock the Boat,
A Gulf of Maine round trip
After a weeklong, very successful visit to the Portland waterfront, the schooner AMISTAD departed May 16 for Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and I had the opportunity to make the passage on the boat across the Gulf of Maine. This trip proved to be not only a pleasant passage on a traditional sailing vessel, but also a
A cautionary tale for U.S. fishermen
Like Canada, the United States has tried to move towards fishing effort restrictions with the aim of rebuilding the fish stocks. Georges Bank was open to the world until 1977, when the U.S. took action to extend its jurisdiction out to 200 nautical miles. Vessels of many flags worked the waters, making huge hauls in
Island Institute hosts boatbuilding show
This summer the Island Institute will feature a show highlighting island boatbuilders. “Island Boatbuilding; Past and Future,” will include a number of historical black-and-white and color images of island boatbuilding, vessels and boat builders. The exhibit will tell their stories. This display, in the Institute’s ground floor exhibit space on Main St. in Rockland, will
Time tested: After a century and a half, Shaw and Tenney still makes the same product
In 1858 the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable was laid, at great expense after many years of work. Minnesota, while still very much on the frontier, was that same year petitioning for statehood, and Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas also met that summer for their seven famous senatorial election debates on the issue of slavery. In
Seafood Handbook: The comprehensive guide to sourcing, buying, and preparation
How to avoid scromboid toxins, and other facts Diversified Publications, 2003 Intended primarily as a commercial educational volume, this book starts off with a guide to seafood processing and market presentation forms. Even as a fisherman, I had never really considered the differences between the J-cut and the V-cut fillet, so this section was interesting,
Local Knowledge and Local Stocks: An Atlas of Groundfish Spawning in the Bay of Fundy
Bringing local knowledge into focus A report of the Centre for Community-Based Management Book by: Jennifer Graham, Stephen Engle, and Maria Recchia This book documents Canadian fishermen’s knowledge of local groundfish stocks in the Bay of Fundy, taking a large number of interviews and distilling them down to a series of maps showing where and
Regional groups collaborate on cod tagging
There is consensus in the fishing and science communities that the distribution and movement of cod in the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank and southern New England regions are not well understood and that greater insight into current distribution and migration patterns of Atlantic cod is needed as managers work to rebuild stocks. One way
From Abundance to Scarcity, A History of U.S. Marine Fisheries Policy
Washington, D.C.: Island Press This volume traces fisheries policy of the United States over roughly the last century. This remarkable period of fisheries history saw greater gains in landings than any other time, along with devastating declines for many species. For the most part, it is a story of disappointingly poor foresight, the results of
Oceans 2020, Science, Trends, and the Challenge of Sustainability
By John G. Field, Gotthilf Hempel and Collin P. Summerhayes Washington, D.C.: Island Press Put together after a 1999 United Nations conference on the oceans, this is essentially a serial book, published after the once-a-decade or so UN conferences on ocean trends. This past decade brought the largest worldwide impacts of man upon the oceans,