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WORKING ON THEIR FYKE NET on the Pennamaquan River in Pembroke are tribal members Natalie and Pos Bassett. The Passamaquoddy Tribe has issued 236 elver fishing licenses this year, and Downeast rivers are lined with nets to catch the glass eels, which are fetching $2,200 a pound. (Edward French photo)
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A SPRING RITUAL. Howard Calder cleans off the bottom of the Ocean Warrior, David Pottle's lobster boat, at the inner basin of the Eastport breakwater on a recent spring day. (Edward French photo)
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| Fishing for elvers lures tribal members |
| by Edward French |
The St. Croix, the Pennamaquan and the Little, the Dennys and the Whiting -- all the rivers Downeast are lined with nets this spring, as elver fishermen are coming down to the banks in the dark of night to harvest a new kind of gold -- more slippery but as small as a nugget, the glass eels that are near the end of their long journey from the Sargasso Sea where they were spawned. With the price now up to $2,200 a pound, and rumors that it might hit $3,000 this year, many are trying their skill or their luck to hit a jackpot.
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| Island group receives grant to repair wharf |
| by Lora Whelan |
Within the next three years the nonprofit Friars Bay Development Association (FBDA) hopes to have the Welshpool, Campobello, wharf bustling with activity. The Small Craft Harbours branch of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) had closed the wharf because of unsafe conditions and had it on its divestiture list. The FBDA has been awarded both the wharf and a grant of $1,020,000 to be used for its repairs.
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by Lora Whelan |
Over the next two weeks 20 out of 100 Washington County teenagers will binge drink, but only 1% of the parents of those 20 teens know or understand that their child may be binge drinking, and only 5% believe that their child may have had a drink in the past 30 days. In the meantime, 35% of county teens report that they drank alcohol in the past month. Perhaps most frightening of all, 14% of teens reported that they had been in a car with someone who was drinking.
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| Hunter mistaken for turkey by coyote |
| by Susan Esposito |
A coyote mistook an Edmunds hunter for a turkey on April 30, the first day of Maine's turkey hunting season, and sent him to the hospital for several bite wounds.
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| Campobello council hears opposition to wind turbine project |
| by J.D. Rule |
Welshpool resident Sherry Johnston addressed the Campobello Rural Community Council meeting on April 30, challenging the council to "listen to your citizens" regarding the recent letter of support for the proposed wind turbine near the southern end of Harbour de Lute. "The vast majority of Welshpoolers and many other islanders oppose a wind turbine," she contended, citing a list of reasons beginning with threats of damage to "the aesthetic beauty and character of Campobello Island," which she observed is the first objective in the island's Rural Plan.
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