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Mapmaker creates cookbook for home and away
If Jane Crosen had not spent 1975 through 1978 at the Scottish spiritual community Findhorn, she might not have become a mapmaker, editor, cook and cookbook author. Although as a child, she had imitated a grandmother cooking, making what her grandmother referred to as “Janie’s little messes,” Crosen discovered a love of baking while planning
Lobstermen say sinking line “just doesn’t work”
“It’s a very poor plan they’ve come up with here,” said Vinalhaven Co-op manager Carol Hamilton of the new sinking rope for lobstermen. “It’s chafing, they’re parting lines off, losing gear. It’s endless. It’s costing them a lot of money.” Although it’s not a problem to the westward due to gradual depth changes and milder
Maine lobster industry still hurting
It’s been a lose-lose situation for lobster fishermen and dealers this spring. The low $3.25 per lb. boat price (the price paid to fishermen) for superb hard shell lobster this spring left both worried about how low the price might drop when shedders come on the market. By mid-June lobster was in short supply as
A profile of the average lobsterman
Over three-quarters of New England’s lobster is landed in Maine. The average New England lobsterman is 50 years old and has been lobstering for 30 years; his vessel is 32 feet long and 17 years old and has a 260 horsepower engine. We can be grateful to The Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GOMRI), in
Library celebrates working waterfront with art
“You have to be in a fast boat with a good driver,” said photographer Sam Murfitt, describing one way to get great action shots of racing boats. Having spent the last five years documenting different aspects of Maine’s working waterfront including lobsterboat races, the races almost synonymous with Jonesport, Murfitt had thousands of choices when
Truckin’ with lobsters
The problem of moving live lobster from Atlantic to Western Canada or the Western United States so it arrives as fresh as it was when it came out of the water prompted Antigonish, Nova Scotia fisherman and self-taught engineer Joe Boudreau to buy into a holding system for live animals developed in the mid-nineties. “I
Fishing nets on display help bring history alive at new exhibit
“I’m really excited about that kind of display,” said Dana Morse, about the model and full-size trawling nets on view in the new fisheries exhibition at the Maine Maritime Museum, in Bath. Morse is the extension associate for the Maine Sea Grant program. “I don’t remember any kind of other display like that being at
Bill would help keep lobster licenses on islands
Islanders fish. It’s one of the only career choices for those who live on isolated unbridged islands miles off the mainland. Oh, one or two might learn plumbing or electrical wiring, most learn how to do carpentry, some house building, and a few build boats in winter, but just about all rely on fishing lobster
Travels With Margie: hunting for bargains from South Portland to Blue Hill
While visiting my sister, Margie Mills, in Portland recently, I thought it might be fun to check out consignment and thrift shops during a Route 1 road trip. Because I volunteer at a thrift shop in Blue Hill, I wanted to assess the competition, and what with the economy having taken a dive, this seemed
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