A thank-you letter from the owners of ‘Band Wagon’

July 18, 2022 New England

To the Camden and Penobscot Bay Waterfront Community: As the owners of Band Wagon, we wanted to extend our sincere thanks to all those involved in our rescue on Wednesday, July 13. While we are heartbroken about our boat, we are incredibly lucky that no one was hurt thanks to all those involved. Someone was certainly looking out for us that morning as we could have been cruising at a much faster rate, further out at sea, or in inclement weather or fog. Special thanks to: Good Samaritans Brad Scott and his crew Charlie Garrigan, aboard the lobster boat Web, who heard our distress call and were first on the scene. >click to read< 09:50

A thank-you letter, Camden, crew Charlie Garrigan, Dominic Gioia, from the owners of, Good Samaritan vessel Web, Harbor Master Steve Pixley, Lively Lady II, Lobsterman Brad Scott, maine, Penobscot Bay Waterfront Community, Rem and Susan of Band Wagon, Special thanks, the staff at Lyman-Morse:, ‘Band Wagon’

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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