To the editor: What a pleasant surprise to find the Boat Shop article in Working Waterfront… It was a very timely article what with all that has and is going on in the life of the Boat Shop at this time. I have been associated with the Boat Shop for 20 years and knew Baffie’s
Good People, Fanatic Clergy
To the editor: Colin Woodard (WWF June 03) is hard on Puritans and lumps good people with a fanatic clergy. He shares historian Banks’s bias in favor of the peaceable loyalists in Maine whom, wrote Banks, the Puritans persecuted and plundered. Yet some of us in York thought even worse the Royal Commissioners whom England
Homeland security
It has been reported elsewhere that the Coast Guard has so far received only one-tenth as much money as it says it needs to do an effective job of protecting the country’s ports against terrorist attacks. And as we noted last month, the increased Coast Guard funding that has so far made it into the
The Admiral’s Daughter
A quiet, cloudy day on Boothbay Harbor and a light, southeasterly air, barely enough to fill the sails of our Friendship sloop EASTWARD but enough to please our one passenger, who was now at the wheel. She was a durable-looking lady, perhaps in her 50s and she spoke with a strong European accent, which I
Giant Teacup
To the editor: We read with interest Roger Duncan’s story (WWF May 03) about the shooting down of the K-14 blimp near Mt. Desert Rock. My father-in-law, Lt. Commander Harry R. Hoyt, was commanding officer of a U.S. Navy coastal patrol vessel (APC-94) during 1943 and 1944. His was the first vessel to spot the
Newfoundland’s Crab War: “lockout” or “mob rule”?
Newfoundland-Labrador fishermen, to put it mildly, have not had a good spring. First, federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Robert Thibault closed what was left of the cod fishery. Then crab processors in the province announced that they would not buy any crab catches because the market price was too low, and the plants were
Well Read
To the editor: I enjoy Working Waterfront, then I give it to our friend here in Weymouth who gives it to his sternman, who loves it, and then he sends it to Ireland for his father and brother to read! Bev Hodges Weymouth, MA
The wedding planner
There’s much to be said for versatility and Jeff has it in spades. He came here fifteen years ago claiming he could do anything and the truth has borne him out. He can’t do anything for long but he can, if fact, do anything. Right now it’s summer and Jeff has become, with the same
ISA virus found in Cobscook Bay salmon pen
Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) has once again reared its unwelcome head in Cobscook Bay. On June 12, the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) ordered the destruction of 28,000 farmed salmon in a Heritage Salmon pen located in Eastport’s Broad Cove. According to DMR Aquaculture Coordinator Andrew Fisk, the order was based on the discovery
Vanishing Species: Saving the Fish, Sacrificing the Fisherman
University Press of New England, 2003 If you live in New England and pay attention to regional news, then you probably are aware of some of the concerns Susan R. Playfair presents in her new book. She is squarely on the side of traditional fishermen, supporting their struggle to keep their work and culture viable