Rowing Forward, Looking Back: Shellfish and the Tides of Change at the Elbow of Cape Cod By Sandy Macfarlane Published by Friends of Pleasant Bay, PO Box 845, South Orleans, MA, 02662, www.fopb.org. $22.95 Scallop Season: A Nantucket Chronicle By Jim Patrick and Rob Benchley Published by Autopscot Press, PO Box 2177, Nantucket, MA 02584,
Local Control: A Debate Over Casco Bay’s Future is Brewing — But Not Until Harpswell Votes
The effects of a Jan. 20 decision by Harpswell voters whether to approve a lease agreement negotiated by town leaders with Conoco Phillips and Transcanada for a $350 million liquefied natural gas terminal will extend far beyond the 70 acres that the plant would occupy at the former Navy fuel depot on Route 123. If
Wired
To the editor: Many of your readers must be getting a chuckle out of the utility pole photographs accompanying Nancy Griffin’s article on the electricity problems on Maine’s islands. The pictures show great views of the telephone cables on the poles, but the electric wires are hardly visible way above, running from the tops of
Island: The Complete Stories
The island of the title refers to Cape Breton, which is separated from the rest of Nova Scotia by the Strait of Canso. The author, born and raised there, wrote his 16 poignant stories of the Scots and Irish, mostly fishermen and coal miners, between 1968 and 1999. Each story is written with love and
Waiting for Time
St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada: Breakwater Publishing, 1994 Waiting for Time is the sequel to Bernice Morgan’s Random Passage, but it does not pick up where the first book left off. Instead, Morgan begins her next part of the story about the Cape Random people in modern Ottawa, a few generations later. Readers of the first
Advisory Council: Selling Licenses a Bad Idea
Three members of the Legislature’s Marine Resources Committee attended the Lobster Advisory Council’s meeting in early November. Senator Dennis Damon (D-Trenton), Rep. Jeff Kaelin (R-Winterport) and Rep. Leila Percy (D-Phippsburg) wanted to hear what Council members thought about LD 276, which would permit the sale of lobster licenses. Senator Damon is Senate co-chair of the
Giant Step
To the editor: The selectmen of Harpswell are negotiating a lease with Conoco Phillips and Trans Canada, to use the former fuel farm on Casco Bay to erect a facility and to store natural gas. This is a valuable fishing area, Zone F. A very large tanker will come in every four days to deposit
3 Ocean Books Reviewed: No Good News and a Fair Amount of Bad
The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World’s Marine Life By Richard Ellis Washington, D.C.: Island Press/Shearwater Books www.islandpress.org In a Perfect Ocean: The State of Fisheries and Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean By Daniel Pauly and Jay Maclean Washington, D.C.: Island Press/Shearwater Books www.islandpress.org Hierarchical Perspectives on Marine Complexities: Searching for Systems in the Gulf
Random Passage
St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada: Breakwater Publishing, 1992 Although Random Passage is not a brand new book, this fictional account of one family’s emigration from England to a remote outport in rural Newfoundland nearly 200 years ago has a habit of staying in print and selling regularly. The book’s popularity is in part due to its
Small Rockland Plant Produces Gel for Multiple Purposes
Along a back road in Rockland is a one-story biotech plant that turns out a product used in developing drugs, forensic lab work, testing for HIV and DNA research. The product, agarose, is processed from ordinary seaweed, farmed overseas on 15-acre plots. “It’s amazing something as simple as seaweed is so paramount to understanding DNA