Island residents speak their minds on war

Though we islanders may be isolated from much of the rest of the world, we are not immune to the politics and controversies that affect our nation. Lately this means differing opinions on the impending war with Iraq. Here on Vinalhaven, residents have had no trouble making their opinions known. Each Saturday since Feb. 15,

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Donate to the Tooth Project!

Marci Train’s class on Long Island has completed a unit on Dental Awareness, and is seeking donations of toothbrushes and toothpaste to send to Haiti with Jan Carter, a social worker who visited the class. “Jan told us all about the people that she helps in the country of Haiti. We are concerned because they

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Breakaways

That’s the new word in the lobster business – breakaways. That’s the new law now, too, breakaway gear. Right now it’s breakaway swivels on the pot buoys. The purpose of this is to stop the entrapment of right whales by having gear that will break away when pressure is brought to bear on the warp.

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Coming soon …to a menu near you

Whether mainstream restaurant menus will eventually offer little-known species with curious names like snakehead depends on several factors. Name recognition is one hurdle, but marketers have a demonstrated agility overcoming that one; witness the popularity of cape shark (a re-branded spiny dogfish) and ocean catfish (Atlantic wolf fish). The perennial quip at the Seafood Show

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Fish of the Future:

By the year 2020, annual seafood demand in the United States will increase by one billion pounds. Assuming that our per-capita seafood consumption remains at its current average of 15 pounds per year, that translates to roughly three billion more pounds of landed fish. Where will all that seafood come from? The statistics and the

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