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Downeast businesses are learning from January storms. How Midcoast Maine can learn from Downeast.
The owners of Chipman’s Wharf, a seafood market, buying station and restaurant in Milbridge, had a brutal awakening after the powerful January storms wiped away their 106-foot wharf. The proprietors, brothers Chris and Jason Chipman and their wives, had insurance that would have covered damage to the pier from fire or an airplane crash, but not storms. The two families are still reeling from the shock. The Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association estimated at least 60 percent of Maine’s working waterfronts were heavily damaged or destroyed in the January storms. Since then, many coastal businesses have had to decide whether to abandon their enterprises or rebuild, hoping to fortify their properties against future major storms — in some cases with a cash infusion from the state. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 07:16
Midcoast Maine lobsterman Sadie Samuels featured in new NBC series on women in food
Rockport lobster boat captain and Belfast restaurant owner Sadie Samuels was featured on an NBC streaming show in a recent episode focusing on women in the commercial fishing industry. In the Head of the Table streaming show “Women on the Water” episode, host Elena Bessert introduces viewers to both Samuels and a Washington state indigenous fishing guide and outdoor influencer. Samuels comes from a fishing family and got her student lobster license at age 7 when she began throwing a few traps from her father’s lobster boat. At age 14, she bought her own boat, named Must Be Nice. She still fishes from that boat. >click to read< 07:43
Midcoast Maine: Tensions rise with acts of vandalism within the lobster fishing community
Col. Jonathan Cornish, head of , said last week that with 30 registered complaints statewide of trap molestation this year, the number of incidents of territorial disputes are about average for the season. The statewide total, eight of which were from the Tenants Harbor area, is the same as in the past few years, he said. Cornish added, however, the agency has seen a spike in complaints statewide during the past two weeks. Complaints typically rise during the peak harvesting months of September and October, he said, when lobstermen shift their traps to where they are seeing their best catches or to move further out from shore to coincide with the migration of the lobsters as the waters close to shore cool down. The marine patrol chief said there have been complaints received in the midcoast of traps being cut since the latest boat sinking. Read the story here 15:38
