Postal Service employee paddles to work
U.S. Postal Service employee Jeremy Averill lives with his wife and four children in Hadley Point, and he also paddles to work on his surfboard in the dead of winter.
Waterfront
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Boats from away filled local harbors last year; 2021 could be busier
While many of the local hotels and motels were half full, if that, for much of the 2020 tourist season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the harbors were having a banner year.
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Maritime Shorts
A team of researchers from the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay and Maine Department of Marine Resources in West Boothbay Harbor recently published their research on the effects of ocean warming and acidification on gene expression in the earliest life stages of the American lobster.
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Draft whale measures would “devastate” lobster fishery
A draft federal biological opinion on the impact of fisheries on endangered North Atlantic right whales would “necessitate the complete reinvention of the Maine lobster fishery,” Governor Janet Mills wrote in a forceful Feb. 19 letter to NOAA Fisheries, citing “grave concern” and “inequities.”
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Local legislators sponsor bills in support of commercial fisheries
The 130th Maine Legislature has released a list of bills proposed in the House and Senate, and local representatives are focused on the commercial fishing industry, alongside other constituent concerns.
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Lobstermen’s buddy has a good thing going
Moulton Ledge, though, is home to some lobsters that hole up in the underwater ridge’s deep cracks and crevices. That’s why Corea fisherman Art O’Keefe sets some of his lobster traps nearby. And, in turn, why a certain gray seal bobs poised to snatch and gulp down live fish that land in the traps and get tossed back into the ocean by the Rebecca B’s sternman Will Collins.
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Fishermen’s Forum hosts online events in place of annual conference
The annual Fishermen’s Forum, a three-day event held in Rockport in early March, was canceled for 2021 under the pandemic restrictions, but online seminars and presentations will take its place.
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Shellfish Focus Day events planned
Shellfish Focus Day is typically held the first day of the annual Maine Fishermen’s Forum. Not wanting to miss out on this event this year after cancellation of the in-person forum, a diverse group of volunteers has put together three webinar/radio programs that will focus on important topics in Maine’s shellfish fisheries
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Maritime Shorts
Test your knowledge of the people, places and things in some of the most popular maritime books and movies at Maritime Media Trivia Night. Trivia will be Tuesdays Feb. 23 through March 23 starting at 7 p.m., and each week’s session will be dedicated to either maritime literature or maritime film.
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Program seeks to restore salmon
Bolstered by a recent federal grant, the Peter Gray Parr Project continues its work to restore the Atlantic salmon in Maine waters.