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Endangered Whales Still Get Tangled In Fishing Gear: Let’S Change The Way We Approach The Problem, Tora Johnson
Endangered Whales Still Get Tangled In Fishing Gear: Let’S Change The Way We Approach The Problem, Tora Johnson
Maine Policy Review
The Gulf of Maine lobster industry has been roiled by conflict over whale entanglement for decades. With fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales remaining, federal regulators are again seeking to implement new measures to protect them from tangling in fishing gear, while the lobster industry faces myriad challenges. My 2005 book Entanglements examined the complex and fraught debate between whale advocates and fishermen. Each side believed the other was inherently evil, greedy, and unduly powerful. Of course, the truth lay somewhere between. Between them were the brave souls who went to sea to wrestle fishing gear off of entangled …
Building A Sustainable Seafood System For Maine, Robin Alden
Building A Sustainable Seafood System For Maine, Robin Alden
Maine Policy Review
In this article, Robin Alden notes that Maine could have one of the premier marine food systems in the world. However, that means adequate stewardship of the Gulf of Maine ecosystem and diversifying the fishing industry beyond lobster by creating innovative public policy and a food system that supports community fishing.
Salt, 2004-2005, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, 2004-2005, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
SALT telling Maine stories. Published by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Number 59 / 60. 2004-2005.
Contents
- 3 Reverence by Jennifer Andrews
- 4 Ride This Train by Brendan Hughes, photos by Tim Greenway. Experience the rickets and tendons along the backbone of the old Boston and Maine Railroad.
- 16 Off the Maine Road: To be Raymond Strout photo essay by Holly Wilmeth. With a hoe and bucket in hand, blood wormers work in time with the ocean’s heave and swell.
- 24 Mussel Men by Susan Gaidos, photos by Kate Fox. Mussels: A crop changing the way fishermen once fished. …
Salt, Vol. 12, No. 3-4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt, Vol. 12, No. 3-4, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies
Salt Magazine Archive
The SALT OMMIBUS. Numbers 47 & 48. Nine dollars. A Special Book-length Double Issue of Salt Stories and Photographs. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
Contents
- 4 Comments The Maine Salt sees—22 years of changing and staying the same. By Pamela Holley Wood.
- 6 Northwoods Balladeer Living what he sings about. By Kristin Brit Peaterson. Photographs by Roland Laigo.
- 17 “Time and Place Teach You” Ethiopian family in Maine. A photographic essay by Stephanie Mitchell.
- 25 What are Cows For? The BST debate on the farm. By Tim Hughes. Photographs by Judith Bennett.
- 45 John Lee Blind but …