PROSPECT HARBOR – American Aquafarms, founded by the CEO of a recently established Norwegian cod farm operating from the port city of Trondheim on the central coast, is eyeing the Maine Fair Trade Lobster plant to acquire and turn into a seafood/fish hatchery plant where cod and Atlantic salmon would be processed from the company’s …
ELLSWORTH — There is no serious scientific dispute that the waters of the Gulf of Maine are warming rapidly and scientists from at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium have found more evidence of the impact rising water temperatures are having on the ocean’s largest wildlife. According to a …
ELLSWORTH — It was almost exactly 400 years ago that the poet and Church of England cleric John Donne told congregants and other readers to “send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee,” but he might well have been addressing Maine’s 6,200 licensed lobstermen. Last July, in a case filed …
GOULDSBORO — A company with its roots in Norway is scheduled to make a presentation of its plans to establish a large salmon and cod farming operation in Frenchman Bay at the meeting of the Gouldsboro selectmen scheduled for 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15. On its website, American Aquafarms describes a “closed pen” fish …
Editor’s Note: To many federal and state fisheries managers and most people in the lobster industry, the name Max Strahan conjures images of a fanatic determined to put an end to lobster fishing in the name of saving endangered right whales from extinction. Over more than two decades, Strahan has filed several federal lawsuits aimed at …
GOULDSBORO – Thursday, Oct. 8 is National Harbormaster Appreciation Day and few harbormasters have had more opportunity to earn the appreciation of the community they serve than Gouldsboro’s Dana Rice Sr. Rice oversees the town’s six busy harbors and, after more than 40 years on the job, he’s busier than ever. Rice’s territory covers all the …
GOULDSBORO — It took less than an hour last Wednesday for Tranzon Auction Properties to sell Gouldsboro Enterprise’s South Gouldsboro property, comprising a lobster buying station, 65-foot wharf, lobster pound, two-story home and a .09-acre parcel of land, for $380,000 to Hal Harlan of Indianapolis, Ind. The previous owner was Melinda Boumans who bought the business …
ELLSWORTH — Max Strahan is threatening to go to court. Again. Known by many in the conservation community, fisheries managers and members of the lobster industry as the “Prince of Whales” in recognition of his frequent federal court litigation aimed at protecting endangered right whales and other endangered marine species, on Thursday, Oct. 1, Strahan …
ELLSWORTH — If it wasn’t clear before last week, there’s a big election just a few weeks away. Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it was releasing some $530 million appropriated by Congress last March under the CARES Act to assist the beleaguered U.S. seafood industry and fishermen damaged by retaliatory …
ELLSWORTH — Nearly five years into the process of renewing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission license for its Graham Lake and Leonard Lake dams, Black Bear Hydro seems no closer to solving the issue of fluctuating water levels in Graham Lake than when the process began. Earlier this month, shoreland owners reported that the water …
SURRY — The preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board on the crash of an airplane into Morgan Bay last month suggests that the plane may have run out of fuel. Late on the afternoon of Monday, Aug. 17, a small, bright yellow airplane made a crash landing off the beach on the …
ROCKLAND — Surrounded by fellow windjammer captains, crew and friends, Captains Doug and Linda Lee recently received an award from the Maine Windjammer Association honoring their combined 100 years of windjamming experience. Offering their highest honor — the Lifetime Appreciation Award — captains and crew of the Maine Windjammer Association fleet applauded the Lees for …
