Bayville and Isle of Springs haven’t dumped tea overboard, but residents of these seasonal hamlets don’t want to pay the same taxes other Boothbay Harbor property owners have to pay. A century ago the Maine Legislature set up scores of village corporations across the state. They were legal entities – or oddities, depending on your
World Wildlife Fund blames illegal fishing for Grand Banks depletion
Foreign overfishing on the Grand Banks off Canada’s east coast continues to deplete groundfish stocks while Newfoundland outport communities, reliant on marine resources, continue to shrink and die. The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, the international organization that governs stocks in the area, has been condemned by individuals, industry and most recently by a federally appointed
Wood Heat: sometimes you can improve on it, sometimes not
Islanders have always had to pay a little more for fuel than mainlanders but the steeply rising cost of heating a home is forcing year-round residents to consider alternatives to fuel oil and propane. On Islesboro, woodstoves are commonly used as a secondary source of heat, supplementing a fossil-fuel fired central heating system. Within the
Massachusetts to Maine by Public Transportation
To the editor: I enjoyed reading the opinions of Steve Cartwright [WWF Aug. 05] and Jack Boak [WWF Sept. 05] in both articles about public transportation. I, too, look forward to “convenient, consistent, coordinated, clean, reasonably priced public transit with user-friendly schedule info serving the midcoast area. I must say what is currently available is
Senator proposes grants to purchase waterfront property
On Sept. 19, Maine Sen. Susan Collins introduced the Working Waterfront Preservation Act to help the commercial fishing industry combat the loss of vital waterfront property and protect Maine and the nation’s maritime heritage. Sen. Collins’s legislation would authorize $50 million in federal grants for each fiscal year from 2005 to 2007. The grants, which
Global Warming and Katrina
To the editor: …You are absolutely correct in stating that Katrina [WWF Oct. 05] was the most predictable tragedy ever to occur in American history. The other shoe – business and residential development along the San Andreas Fault – will likewise hit the deck (or the fan) one day also. While I am concerned with
Industry Idea
To the editor: I had a chance to read the article about four guys and a book on the back page of your most recent issue [WWF Oct. 05]. I have also had the opportunity to speak with Ted Ames on several occasions about his ongoing research into spawning grounds and the possibility of combining
Irritated
To the editor: Well OK, I’m sitting around getting irritated again, reading what I think is your “softball” coverage of the Atlantic Canada fishing industry, so I thought I should pick up the pen and start grumbling. Bob Gustafson starts his article, “Report: Atlantic snow crab fishery is in trouble” in the September issue, with
More on “Nor’easter”
To the editor: Why did Ed Myers dislike the term “nor’easter” so much? “Not sure,” says Working Waterfront (Oct. 05). Not sure, indeed! No doubt Ed concurred with Gerald Warner Brace who deplored the “lubberly misuse of the words ‘northeast’ and ‘southeast’; nothing gives an outsider, or a landsman, away quicker than those – specially
FFAW official blames EU tariffs for shrimp fishery’s problems
The Canadian east coast shrimp fishery is in serious trouble, says David Decker, secretary-treasurer of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers in St. John’s Newfoundland, and it’s time to take serious action to save it. Furthermore, he says that only a united Atlantic Canadian effort will solve the problem, and to that end he and