MECHANIC FALLS — Chad Jordan never minded the TV cameras and crew. The four-person team that followed him nonstop for three months last spring did its best to stay out of his way, he said. “They tried to let you do your own thing,” Jordan said. It was the talking about what he does — […]
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Meeting to discuss cuts to elvers fishery postponed
BREWER (AP) — A public hearing on plans to cut Maine’s lucrative glass eel catch has been delayed by weather — again. About 150 people attended the first hearing last month in Augusta. The second meeting was postponed because of bad weather until Thursday in Brewer. The Maine Department of Marine Resources announced Thursday that’s […]
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Maine moves forward with limits on elver harvest
PORTLAND — The Maine Department of Marine Resources is moving forward with plans to slash the harvest of lucrative glass eels. At the first public hearing held this week in Augusta, the industry offered support for quotas based on the historical catch. Another hearing will be held Jan. 2 in Brewer before rules are drafted […]
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Regulators want to cut elver harvest by 25% in 2014
PORTLAND — Regulators have agreed to allow Maine’s lucrative glass eel fishery to remain open next year as long as Maine officials devise a plan that will cut the state’s 2014 catch by at least 25 percent. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s eel management board voted Wednesday in Georgia to postpone passing new eel-fishing […]