“The judges told us there was no doubt in their minds,” said Shucks Maine Lobster President John Hathaway. “They were unanimous in their decision that our raw fresh shucked Maine lobster meat was the Best New Product.” Hathaway had traveled to Brussels on April 24th with Elafood, the Shucks’ European distributor, for the world’s largest
Eastport celebrates Old Home Week
Eastport’s 2007 Old Home Week ended officially at eight bells on July 6 as harbor pilot Captain Bob Peacock climbed down the pilot’s ladder of the USS McFaul (DDG 74) onto the Eastport pilot boat in the Bay of Fundy. The destroyer, which arrived on July 1, was the 23rd naval vessel to serve as
Latin American visitors learn from a coastal river and the people who live near it
How do you get people to realize our natural resources are in deep trouble? The problem, said Dirk Francisco of the Belize Audubon Society, is, “they don’t think about tomorrow.” So, overfishing goes on in Belize as it does around the world, and the delicate coastal ecosystem that supports the local economy gets closer to
Oh Canada!
A trip to Nova Scotia by coastal New Englanders may seem unnecessary; simply more of what we’re already used to here, only further north and east. That Atlantic province of Canada does have many interesting connections with us Yankees. But, as they say, vive la difference! Two of us decided to venture from the coast
In Franklin, small is beautiful
Fifty-seven hundred square feet — the size of a recently-built house in Utah for a family of four, as reported in The Bangor Daily News. MDI architect John Gordon thinks such a home might be a tad big. “Just insane,” Gordon said. Gordon could be said to work at the opposite end of the spectrum
State Pier project gets a green light — sort of
On July 11, Portland City Council’s Community Development Committee (CDC) voted two-to-one to recommend Ocean Properties Ltd., of Portsmouth over The Olympia Cos., of Portland, as the company best suited to redevelop Maine State Pier. This story of dueling developers (WWF May 2007) might well have ended that evening, were it not for the continuing
Canadian Council: Time for Quotas
A report on Atlantic Canada’s lobster fishery issued in July by the Canadian Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC) says that a new management plan is needed to prevent the collapse of the fishery. Reaction among fishermen in the Maritimes has been that it’s all well and good for the FRCC to make recommendations, but who’s
Foundation offers fishermen a rope buyback
In a one-day event in Scarborough this past month, 125 lobstermen traded in 140,000 pounds of ground-line rope for vouchers toward the purchase of a rope less likely to entangle endangered whales. The rope exchange was the first of its kind in the state. Federal regulations due out in October ensure it won’t be the
New research group to investigate ocean power sources
A new organization, The Ocean Energy Institute, has set up shop in Rockland’s South End, and aims to reduce fossil fuel use through supporting the development of new methods of generating both electricity and liquid fuels from marine sources. The group will be housed in the former MBNA complex on Water Street, overlooking the inner
Overlapping territories
The dispute between Canadian and American lobster fishermen over what is known as the “Gray Zone” (or the “Grey Zone,” depending on who’s talking) is back in the news this summer. How hot the dispute will get also depends on who’s talking. “It’s likely to get ugly,” says Greg Peacock, director of federal-provincial relations for