Maggie Terry says her first reaction when a friend suggested she and Dick Conroy call their new business Free Range Fish was “You’re kidding; I don’t know if I could do that.” But after they had all stopped laughing, she reconsidered. “I thought, ‘Why not?’ ” she says. “There’s this thing about free range chicken,”
Less Polarization, Please
Less polarization, please To the editor, The controversy over shellfish aquaculture in the Bagaduce is just one battle in a larger war, but I would not go along with Sandy Dinsmore’s characterization (in her recent article “The Fight for the Bagaduce”) of the antagonists as being the wealthy waterfront property owners from away versus a
National Science Foundation supports Islesboro, Peaks, Vinalhaven mapping projects
Drive the roads of rural Maine today and you might notice street signs marking what were once unnamed dirt tracks. Most likely, these new signs are the result of Maine’s adoption of an enhanced emergency response system, known as E-911. In many towns, E-911 raised the ire of residents who were forced to change a
A new county?
A new county? To the editor: Thanks for the update on Portland’s waterfront presented in May 2002 issue. We on the Casco Bay islands have a better understanding that the $8 million being quoted is nothing but hot air. Perhaps some investigative reporting would reveal the true revenues of this cash cow? Portland is a
The Basque History of the World
The Basques are one of the unique people-islands to be found on the face of the earth, completely different in every sense from the peoples around them, and their language, surrounded by Aryan languages, forms an island somehow comparable to those peaks which still surface above the water in a flood zone. This description, written
Editorials
Soon Labor Day will have passed and the woods will be full of politicians, a few of whom want to be Maine’s next governor. That’s a fine thing, of course, but it seems reasonable to ask the various candidates for a few answers before casting our votes. No one wants to elect a pig in
Blue Frontier: Saving America’s Living Seas
This book chronicles a menu of threats to our nation’s seas and marine animals, from the overfishing of codfish in New England to groupers too small to spawn being caught in Texas, and from the ear infections of surfers in the sometimes contaminated waters of southern California to the seemingly endless appetite of factory trawl
Burnt Church Natives, Canadian DFO sign lobster agreement
The Mi’kmaq of Burnt Church Reserve in New Brunswick and the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans have come to terms over management and regulation of the Miramichi lobster fishery – at least for the next two years. A hereditary chief of the Mk’kmaq Grand Council, however, declared the agreement “a sellout.” Representatives of both
Everything flows, nothing stays
And so, as it must to all men unwilling to climb one more shaky ladder to clean oak leaves out of a downspout, we moved from 43 degrees 56 minutes N. all the way to 44 degrees 015 N. to the local retirement massif five plus miles (Naut.) or so up the estuary. Quite a
Fun on the high seas
The Old Man and I decided, now that we’re getting old, but not yet to the crickety stage, that if we were ever going to take time out to have some fun, we better be about it. God knows it’s next to impossible to make ends meet in this economy – so throwing worry to