To the editor: [re Colin Woodard’s column in the March WWF] I e-mailed American Humane Society, The Humane Society of the United States, the ABC/DOD indoor cat project, along with friends, fellow ministers, etc., to see if anyone knew about just what had happened to Keiko other then he had pneumonia… I received this response
A Feast of Lobster Books
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean By Trevor Corson Harper Collins, 2004 The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier By Colin Woodard Viking Books, 2004 Not one but two very good new books on Maine lobsters. It’s like being
Changing Coast: At State Aquaculture Heaings, Questions are Often the Same
At an aquaculture lease hearing in Northport in February, a resident of Bayside angrily asked Joe Larrabee how he could get him to turn down the rock music Larrabee usually had blaring from his radio when he was working on his mussel raft 1,190 feet offshore. “Just ask,” answered Larrabee, who wasn’t aware that the
From the Deck: Sea Trials
As soon as a new boat is fit to move, she is taken out for sea trials. I saw the USS BOISE lashing Penobscot Bay into suds from Owls Head across to Stand In Point by shifting abruptly from full ahead to full reverse. And I pushed my five-year-old son off for a sea trial
Journal of an Island Kitchen: Eggs-actly
According to recent calculations a third of a million eggs will be laid on Islesboro in the next ten years, and that will be just by hens as long as our chicken population does not change very much. Islesboro has around 603 souls, according to the 2000 census, and at this time of year, March,
Cruise Ships Galore Head for the Maine Coast
An armada of cruise ships will make 180 port visits and bring many thousands of tourists – and lots of money – to coastal Maine ports this year. Leading the fleet will be the largest and costliest cruise ship ever built, QUEEN MARY 2, which will call in Bar Harbor Sept. 27 and Portland Oct.
Yankee Ingenuity: Frenchman’s Bay Mussel Farmers Plan to Sink Their Rafts Out of Sight
Maine aquaculture farmers often bend over backwards to satisfy the desires of riparian landowners. They’ve muted colors, muffled engines, reduced the size of buoys, cut down the size of lease sites. Now, Babe Stanley and his son Shain are using their Yankee ingenuity to invent a way to get their mussel aquaculture rafts out of
Company Imprives its Crank-up Bait-lobster Box
John Kaznecki, owner of Seacoast Machine and Fabrication, has “tuned up” his already popular crank-up bait/lobster box. With the improvement of the crank up ratchet system and the addition of the new box bottom that allows for a slight increase in volume, the box now appears more as if it was designed for a yacht
PEI’s Largest Seafood Processor Placed in Receivership
The troubled past and present of the fish processing company Polar Foods has turned into a troubled – and confusing – future. The company, based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, was placed in receivership on Feb 27, according to deputy provincial fisheries minister Lewie Creed. The receiver, Ernst & Young, issued a Notice of Request
Islesboro Students Compete for Top Honors
Two middle school students at Islesboro Central School have received awards for academic excellence. Seventh grader Dylan O’Connell won the annual Waldo County Spelling Bee, and sixth grader Jeffrey Lewis took first place in the school’s Geography Bee. Both students will now advance to competition at the state level, Dylan on March 26, and Jeffrey