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Cory Alley, island leader, dies suddenly

January 11, 2024 New England

Cory Alley, Islesford lobsterman and chair of the Cranberry Isles Select Board, died after collapsing in his outboard while heading to his lobster boat last Friday, Jan. 5. Islesford’s first responders tried to resuscitate him as another boat captain took him to the Coast Guard Station in Southwest Harbor, but efforts were unsuccessful. He was 50. Alley leaves behind his wife, Cari, the town’s health officer and a member of the School Committee, as well as four children: a son at Ashley Bryan School on Islesford, a son at Mount Desert Elementary, a daughter at MDI High School and an adult daughter. 2 photos, more, >>click to read<< 08:12

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Right whales: Public comments range from ‘save the whales’ to ‘save the fishermen’

March 21, 2021 Canada, Featured, International News, National, New England

Samuel Sautaux posted his comment from Lentigny, Switzerland, located north of the Alps. His comment is among about 171,208 received from individuals who live near and far from the right whales’ cruising grounds and posted an opinion on the latest federal effort to protect the species on the public comment page overseen by NOAA. These comments are now being processed,,, Some of the comments are quite succinct, as was Sautaux’s. Others are more elaborate – including one from an author who signs as a 69-year-old, sixth generation lobsterman from Maine who says the proposal amounts to a “death sentence” on the industry. >click to read< 07:16

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Evidence shows Maine lobster gear has not contributed to decline in Right whale population

February 16, 2021 Canada, Featured, New England

In today’s world, it is hard to discern truth from opinion, or fact from calculated lies.,, The fact is also that no documented right whale death has ever been attributed to Maine lobstermen. There has only been one known entanglement in the past 20 years (2012). That whale was disentangled and set free.,,, The combination of ship strikes and snow crab gear entanglement was catastrophic, but had nothing to do with Maine lobster gear. The “guilt by association” assumption by environmental groups and NOAA/NMFS is unwarranted and unacceptable. By Jack Merrill. >click to read< 07:55

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Islesford, Maine – Lobsters are on the move, but most lobstermen can’t be

July 10, 2014 New England

“We know the water’s warmer,” Thomas said in the pier’s office this spring, noting what’s believed by scientists to be a key reason behind the lobsters’ expansion. “There’s no thought on that one.” “If the water keeps warming, one theory is the lobsters will just keep going north,” he added. “I don’t know. That’s the scariest part in my mind. We don’t know what’s gonna happen.” Read more here 21:02

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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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