Jonesport Shipyard sold to president of Maine Lobster Boat Races Penobscot Marine Museum Board president

December 11, 2023 National

An established boatyard is in new but experienced hands after the Jonesport Shipyard changed hands mid-November. Jon Johansen is known up and down the coast as president of Maine Lobster Boat Racing, but he also publishes the monthly newspaper Maine Coastal News and is president of Maine Built Boats, Penobscot Marine Museum Board president and director of the International Maritime Library. The man knows his boats, so why not buy a boatyard? But the response to his decision, Johansen shared, was, “Are you crazy?” Johansen was concerned about losing working waterfront, he said. Recently, he’d learned of Osmond Beal’s boat shop on Beals Island being sold to a Florida resident — who closed it off with a locked gate. Johansen said he didn’t want to see the Jonesport Shipyard, fronting Moosabec Reach and on the market, also lost. more, >>click to read<< 19:33

Changed hands, concerned with working waterfront loss, established boatyard, Jon Johansen, Jonesport Shipyard, Penobscot Marine Museum Board president, president of Maine Lobster Boat Racing

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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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