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State offers limited-purpose aquaculture license
Islesboro to Rockland, the long way
Ending their summer with a bang, a group of island teenagers boarded the schooner SPIRIT OF MASSACHUSETTS on Aug. 14, departing from Islesboro’s Grindle Point for a nine-day trip that would circumnavigate Cape Cod. Students adapted quickly, hardening up to life at sea with a nonstop passage through the night to Gloucester, Massachusetts. The educational
Bigelow
Edited by Bruce B. Collette and Grace Klein-MacPhee Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press This bible of fish identification was first issued in 1925, written to a large degree by William W. Welsh, and finished by the young fisheries biologist Henry Bigelow after Welsh’s untimely death. Bigelow made his life’s work the investigation of the marine
The Great Eastern Mussel Cookbook
Forest Dale, Vermont: Paul Eriksson Publishing $15.00 As one of Maine’s most ubiquitous and abundant seafood products, mussels have long been somewhat maligned, dismissed as a “poor man’s food,” and considered by many to be gritty, hard to clean, and limited in culinary scope to steaming with a little wine and garlic. This book, combined
Chef’s lawyers and fishermen support hook-caught codfish
A somewhat unlikely coalition of traditional Cape Cod fishermen, chefs of fine restaurants, and environmental lawyers has come together to promote codfish – not just any codfish, but specifically Chatham, Massachusetts hook-and-line caught cod. This three-way partnership has recognized that protecting and restoring the marine environment involves more than just rebuilding fish stocks, and also
Inshore herring study relies on fishermen’s reports
An ongoing study conducted by the Island Institute will seek to document herring spawning locations this fall along the coast. The study seeks to locate and map these spawning events in order to understand more accurately the reproductive nature and trends of herring. The project is a multi-year investigation that will match recent spawning observations
Blue Frontier: Saving America’s Living Seas
This book chronicles a menu of threats to our nation’s seas and marine animals, from the overfishing of codfish in New England to groupers too small to spawn being caught in Texas, and from the ear infections of surfers in the sometimes contaminated waters of southern California to the seemingly endless appetite of factory trawl
Maine fishing groups propose a revolutionary management plan
In response to the groundfish crisis, a number of Maine fishing and coastal community groups have collaboratively developed an alternative management plan, based on principles of decentralizing the quotas and establishing fishing areas for different groups, and will present that plan to local fisheries managers. This new plan hopes to provide a solution to the
New England’s groundfishery: Five views of the changed rules
On May 1, 2002, New England commercial groundfishermen began operating under a last minute ruling by a federal judge establishing a new and more restrictive management plan for the fishery. Judge Gladys Kessler’s ruling came after a coalition of five environmental groups won a federal suit charging the government of with failing to implement mandates
Municipal fish piers face tougher times
Along the Maine waterfront there are a number of municipally owned docking, berthing, unloading and service facilities dedicated to the commercial fishing industry. In these times of declining fish stocks, ever-changing regulations, and rising pressures for recreational and non-marine uses of waterfront property, some of these fish piers have been facing uneasy and threatened futures.