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Task force hears concerns from lobstermen
How to get a better price for lobster, how to better market it, lack of trust between fishermen and dealers, sustainability of the fishery and how better to diversify the fisheries and take the pressure off lobster: These issues and more held everyone’s attention for four hours on March 10 in Ellsworth at the task
Loose fishing boat grounds out, despite Coast Guard effort
What do you do when you’re crossing a bridge in a 35-knot easterly with driving snow gusting to 40 and two-foot seas, and you see a big unmanned Novi boat drifting toward the bridge? The lobster fisherman driving across the Beal’s-Jonesport bridge on February 24th did what he said the next person to cross the
Lobster industry task force starts working
When Canada’s lobster processors were unable to obtain the lines of credit they needed to purchase Maine’s annual glut of soft shell lobster because three of the Icelandic banks that financed them had gone into bankruptcy, Maine found itself knee-deep in lobster as the boat price, the price paid to the fishermen who trapped the
Lobster licenses key to survival of year-round islands
“The Maine islands that depend on lobster fishing to maintain their year round populations will slowly die if they continue to lose lobster licenses,” said Swan’s Island native Sonny Sprague. Swan’s, the Cranberries, Frenchboro, and the other islands that lie in Lobster Zone B, a zone with closed entry, require five fishermen to retire their
Suspicions rise with lobster price
No sooner had the public become used to eating lobster because of the extraordinarily low price this past fall than it lost that gustatory pleasure when the price snapped up like a rubber band. In mid-January the price of lobster in the US and Canada doubled-went up $3- in 10 days. One day in that
Lobster licenses key to survival of Maine’s year-round islands
Duncan’s voyage as chronicler of the coast continues onward
Author, historian, yachtsman, crew oarsman, coxswain, and coach, and retired teacher Roger F. Duncan may move slowly and wear a hearing aid, but his mind remains swift and clear as does his wry, impish sense of humor. In response to a, “Good for you!” at hearing he’d reached 92, he replied, “I’m not so sure.”
Duncan’s voyage as chronicler of the coast continues onward
Author, historian, yachtsman, crew oarsman, coxswain, and coach, and retired teacher Roger F. Duncan may move slowly and wear a hearing aid, but his mind remains swift and clear as does his wry, impish sense of humor. In response to a, “Good for you!” at hearing he’d reached 92, he replied, “I’m not so sure.”
Lobster industry in crisis as prices collapse
Nobody’s pretty babies: family plant processes hagfish
“The first year, I wouldn’t even go in the building when they were processing,” said Drusilla Ray, of the product being processed, hagfish or Myxine glutinosa, better known as sea snakes or slime eels. She and her husband, Lawrence, own Cherry Point Products, Inc., in Millbridge, a company that fishes, processes, freezes, and sells sea