Community mourns longtime Gouldsboro harbormaster, Select Board member

April 17, 2025 New England

A native son who survived polio and decades of negotiating fisheries legislation, town politics and managing the town’s six harbors died April 9. Dana Rice Sr., husband, father, longtime Gouldsboro Select Board member and harbormaster, was born in 1947. “He was a wonderful man,” said Ray Jones. “We miss him a horrible lot.” “He was an amazingly respectable man, and he adored his wife, family and community. We were so lucky to have him lead Gouldsboro,” said Eve Wilkinson, former town manager and town clerk. Rice served in a number of roles including Board of Advisers for the Lobster Institute, a member of the MLA and the Down East Lobsterman’s Association, a member of the Import/Export Dealers Association, a representative to the Lobster Conservation Management Team and a member of the Lobster Advisory Council. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 10:24

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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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