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Rockweed provides jobs in Jonesport
Look likes that Jonesport is harvesting rockweed. “Washington County is a fading area,” he said. “No jobs. No work.” He went on, “Jonesport and the crew up here, we need this. We need the fishing industry. This is our livelihood.” Look started working with rockweed almost forty years ago, back in the days when lobster
Low-cost, portable dentistry arrives on islands
Island dentistry is part of a project Oh and his wife, Audree Park, who has her own dental practice in Bar Harbor, started working on two winters ago. Oh, who has long had an interest in community dentistry, had seen a need for dental care for lower income families and MaineCare members. He said, “It’s
Industry insider to purchase Prospect Harbor plant
Prospect Harbor’s sardine cannery is about to begin a new chapter in its history as a lobster processing facility. For purchaser Antonio Bussone, the idea is new, too. Bussone, president of the Chelsea, Massachusetts-based Live Lobster Co., Inc, and Stonington-based lobster and bait company, Lobster Web Co., Inc., first began researching the pros and cons
Maine’s lobster processers get the OK to sell claws
In 2007, Portland Shellfish President Jeff Holden and Export Sales and Marketing Manager Emily Lane made the finals at the Brussels Seafood Show in the Prix d’Elite competition for two new products: Lobster Cocktail Claws, which have the cap of the shell removed, and Triple-scored Lobster Claws, which are made easy to snap off in
Maine adopts limited-entry program for island fishermen
In January 2011, residents of Maine’s year-round island communities will have increased access to Maine’s lobster fishery. Last year, LD 1231: An Act To Protect the Long-term Viability of Island Lobster Fishing Communities, sponsored by Speaker Hannah Pingree, was passed into law. This summer, the Maine Department of Marine Resources held three Public Hearings to
Fishermen’s wives run waterfront sewing shop
Kathleen Stanley is a natural. Not a baseball player, or someone who can play piano by ear, but a Mt. Desert Island seamstress who started sewing at age four. “No one taught me,” she said. “My mother didn’t sew. I remember sewing with a treadle when I was five, six, seven years old.” Her grandmother,
Watch out for lines
With the summer boating season underway, lobstermen are dealing with the age-old problem of recreational boaters running over trap lines. Recreational boaters inadvertently sail or motor over trap lines and in so doing, wrap the line around the propeller or rudder. When that happens, despite sincere effort to free it, sometimes cutting the rope becomes
Retired Nova Scotian teacher becomes lobster historian
Any fears Donnie Jacquard may have had about the success of his book on southwest Nova Scotia’s lobster fishery melted away when a particular fisherman he thought might not like it told him, “Donnie, that’s the most wonderful thing anybody has ever done for us. Every time I read your book, I cry.” The book
From Castine to Washington, and back again
William J. Brennan taught for the first time at the Maine Maritime Academy. He served as the Sawyer Professor of Ocean Studies at the academy, from 1999 to 2002. He enjoyed the experience, being “on the giving as opposed to the receiving end-I spent a lot of time in higher education receiving an education, but
A way of life ends in Prospect Harbor, as only remaining American sardine cannery closes
“That sardine factory has been a part of my life and a part of my family’s life for three or four generations,” said Gouldsboro Selectmen Dana Rice. “Well, almost anybody in this area has some relationship [with the cannery] unless you just moved here a couple of weeks ago.” When cannery owner Bumble Bee Foods