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Edward French

2011

Divers locate sunken boat in Cobscook Bay

A dragger that sank near Falls Island in Cobscook Bay was located by the Maine State Police dive team on Thursday, January 20. The Miss Priss had sunk almost a year before -- on January 23, 2010, after hitting a submerged object.

2011

Casinos and school funding targets of bills

Area legislators are putting bills in the hopper to address issues ranging from allowing gambling proposals such as a casino for the Passamaquoddy Tribe to proceed, to authorizing the City of Eastport to sell the Boat School property.

2011

Farmed fish escape leads to renewal of call for changes

Approximately 138,000 juvenile salmon were lost in late December from a fish farm off Grand Manan after high winds tore the netting on the cages. The losses occurred at two new cages at an Admiral Fish Farms site off Pumpkin Island, near White Head Island.

2011

Filipino workers on Deer Island adding to county’s cultural mix

Charlotte County is becoming a community with a wide diversity of cultures, as people are coming from countries ranging from Asia to eastern Europe to work mostly in the county's fish plants.

2011

Scallop area closure draws mixed reaction

The Department of Marine Resources' compromise to close part of Cobscook Bay to scallop dragging, because of the lack of legal-size scallops and the large amount of seed, is finding a mixed reaction Downeast, with some fishermen maintaining that the entire bay should have been closed and some...

2010

Chechens learn about tribe's nation-within-nation relations

A group of the indigenous people from war-torn Chechnya, a republic in Russia, met recently with Passamaquoddy tribal officials to find out how tribes in the U.S. have worked out their nation-within-nation relationship...

2010

Tribe alleges harassment at border stations

Allegations of harassment of Passamaquoddys at border crossings into Canada might be seen as an inconvenience to non-Natives, but some members of the tribe view the reports as another step in the path by the Canadian government to write the tribe out of existence.