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Edward French

2011

Closure of bay to scalloping being weighed

Some 83 scallop draggers are finding high prices but slim pickings in Cobscook Bay this year, and many fishermen are asking that the Department of Marine Resources (DMR) close the bay, or perhaps the entire Maine coast, for the rest of the season to allow the resource to recover.

2011

Pulp mill seeks exemption for St. Croix dams

Woodland Pulp LLC, which owns three water storage dams along the St. Croix River watershed, is seeking to have them become exempt from new federal licensing requirements because of the high cost of both the licensing process and the regulations that would be imposed.

2011

Tribe eyes tapping maple syrup market

The Passamaquoddy Tribe is pursuing a plan to tap into the maple syrup market, using 28,000 acres it owns around Jackman. Chief Clayton Cleaves of Pleasant Point says he had been hoping that 35,000 trees could be tapped this coming season...

2011

Hearings on restarting Lepreau focus on risk from earthquakes

With the earthquake and tsunami that caused a meltdown at the Fukushima reactors in Japan last March fresh in everyone's minds, the risks posed by possible earthquakes to the Point Lepreau nuclear reactor were among the points pressed by those opposing the restarting of the generating station,...

2011

Firm to ship wood chips through port

Great Northern Timber Inc., based in Halifax, is expected to begin stockpiling wood chips at the Port of Eastport's new bulk material storage yard in January, with the first shipment to be loaded during the first quarter of the new year.

2011

High catches erased by low lobster prices

Unusually good catches -- up perhaps 30% -- are being wiped out by unusually low prices -- down by a dollar or more per pound -- for lobster fishermen in southwest New Brunswick, following the start of the season on November 8.

2011

Cooke faces charges from lobster deaths

Three senior officials of Cooke Aquaculture, the largest producer of farmed salmon in eastern North America, and one of its subsidiary companies are being charged with releasing a banned pesticide used to treat salmon for sea lice into area waters, which ended up killing perhaps 1,000 or more...