Maine Shrimp

Maine or “Northern” Shrimp (Pandalus borealis) have been targeted by fishermen in the Gulf of Maine for generations and are the small, delicious shrimp that normally make their way to our appetizer or dinner plates for the holiday season. This year though, Maine shrimp will be much harder to come by as the fishing season

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Avoiding the Mid-Winter Island Blues

Whether fishing or building, running or biking, sailing or kayaking, islanders have many options for staying active in the summer. But once traps are hauled and roads buried under ice and snow, getting exercise becomes more difficult. For some islands, fitness facilities provide important access to indoor exercise in the off-season. For islands in Penobscot

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Never Say No To an Island

Islanders, no matter how competitive they may be in their fishing territories on the water, love hearing stories from other islanders. No one but another islander can fully appreciate the ways unforgiving edges of an island’s shore carve an offshore identity. Which is how we got an invitation to visit the islands of the Outer

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Tropical Fish…In Maine?

Near the entrance of the 12,000-square-foot building in Franklin that is home to Sea & Reef Aquaculture, numerous tanks hold thousands of brightly colored tropical fish destined for pet stores and wholesalers across the United States. In some, duplicates of Finding Nemo’s hero, the Tomato Clownfish, swim around each other, each confident in its own

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Rye

An accidental crop of 31 pounds of whole rye grains safely stored in large glass jars rests on my pantry floor. In our island’s history, I am hardly the first to grow rye. Not only did early settlers grow it for a bread grain, but it was needful for at least one sort of whiskey

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Doing Lunch

Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but if you ride the mail boat in the Cranberry Isles, chances are that lunch is your most talked about meal. As you board the ferry with empty canvas bags, going ashore for appointments, shopping and such, you rarely hear us ask each other what

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