The Pettegrow family, owners of the Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound, has filed a counterclaim against Lobster 207, which purchased the lobster pound’s wholesale operation and has accused the family of embezzlement, theft and breach of contract.
A resolution that would have created a 25-member study group to research how best to balance new coastal development with environmental conservation was shot down by a legislative committee last week after concerns over the resolve’s vague language and strong objections from the aquaculture industry.
Late last week, Hancock County residents got an abstract picture of how American Aquafarms would draw and discharge sea water and dispose of waste from its proposed operation in Frenchman Bay.
A Bar Harbor-based mussel grower is looking to expand its scallop farming in Frenchman Bay.
Fishermen from across the state gave their support last week to a local legislator’s bill that would ban the development of offshore wind projects in the Gulf of Maine.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is going forward with an environmental review and planning on maintenance work for the more than 100-year-old breakwater that protects docks and anchorages in Bar Harbor.
The Bar Harbor Town Council voted last week to suspend the conservation hours requirement for commercial clamming license holders for the 2021-2022 season.
For decades, lobstermen have filled their bait bags with Atlantic herring, the small fish that plays a tremendous role in the food chain and is the preferred bait of Maine’s biggest fishery. “We’ve trained and raised our lobsters on it,” said James Hanscom, a Bar Harbor-based lobstermen who also sells bait. “It’s definitely the bait of choice.” But as quotas for Atlantic herring have tightened over the years, lobstermen and bait dealers have been forced to look elsewhere for other baits to lure in lobsters.
Scientists unveiled rare footage of North Atlantic right whales coming “belly to belly” with each other last week (May 7). During a joint research trip in Cape Cod Bay, photographer Brian Skerry and scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and New England Aquarium witnessed a group of the endangered whales “hugging with their flippers,” possibly showing affection and attempting to mate.
The price for elvers has rebounded after it was down to about half of its peak before the pandemic. The price per pound for Maine’s small eels has gone up to $1,740 a pound from about $1,000 at the start of the season earlier this spring.
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