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The Passamaquoddy Tribe is asserting its fishing rights in both near-shore and offshore waters, from Point Lepreau to Cape Ann, Mass., as it develops a new fisheries management plan that may place the tribe at odds with the state of Maine and the U.S. and Canadian governments.

A sudden reversal of fortunes for area school districts hit school and municipal officials late last week, as preliminary state subsidy figures that had previously indicated districts would receive more funding now show almost all of them will lose funding.

The Grand Manan Fishermen's Association (GMFA) is asking the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to place an immediate freeze on all lobster license transfers to nonresidents of the island after a lobster license was sold outside Lobster Fishing Area (LFA) #38 to a company from the...