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Maine Coastal News
Publisher's Note
P.O. Box 710
As I have said before, the move to one meet the curator for the Hart Nautical Mu-
Winterport, Maine 04496-0710 U.S.A.
issue a month and making the paper free has seum. He has helped me identify the most
(207) 223-8846 Fax (207) 223-9004
been a godsend. The number of issues important areas I need to work on with my
E-mail - igmatats@aol.com
pressed has nearly doubled, and the returns library. He also told me about this museum
are less than five percent. This means that the software program I should look at.
Web site: www.mainescoast.com paper is getting into many more hands than During my search for a berth for SAT-
before and that makes the advertisers very URN in the Rockland area I happened to end
happy. I also realize that there are numerous up at the Owl’s Head Transportation Mu-
other places the paper should be distributed seum. What an interesting place. If you love
though, but I want it in places were there is old cars than you should have been there the
a high traffic of marine-related people. day I happened to drop by. Some of the
What is the most important factor is that Payne collection, which was to be auctioned
I have more time between issues to do more off on 26 and 27 September, was there. Wow,
travel, conversing, research and writing. there were some beautiful pieces of automo-
This makes a much better newspaper as to bile history. Also there was an antique car
what is going on, or has gone on, on the coast group with about 60 very beautiful automo-
of Maine. I have even started to do some very biles touring the Rockland area. If you have
in depth interviews on tape so that the recent not been here you got to go. It is well worth
Maine Coastal News is dedicated to covering the waterfront of State of Maine. It covers
history, which is known by those who made the trip.
commercial fishing, yachting (power and sail), boat yard and waterfront news and maritime history. it, is not lost. The most important thing that hap-
Maine Coastal News is published 12 times per year.
Another major change has been putting pened to me there, I happened to ask Ethan
The distribution of Maine Coastal News is from Eastport to Kittery and is free on the
the paper on the web. As soon as I send it to Yankura, their Education Director/Curator,
newsstand. It also can be by subscription. A year subscription, 12 issues, is $20.00. A single copy
the press I forward the same files to a friend about the museum software program I been
is $2.00, which covers the postage. Foreign rates for subscriptions are $40.00 per year.
and he puts them on the site. This site needs told about. Well, they use this program at the
The Maine Coastal News office is located at 966 North Main Street, Winterport, Maine.
Comments or additional information write: Maine Coastal News, P.O. Box 710, Winterport,
a lot of work and hopefully over the winter it Museum and he took the time and sat me
Maine 04496.
will be redesigned to be much more informa- down to explain it. I immediately came home,
tive and contain many of the past articles and downloaded a trial version, and it seems like
photographs. Another important feature it will do everything that the library needs. I
that this could offer is a place to put material have been in a holding pattern on entering
that could not be fit into the newspaper. more data until I had the software I needed in
What does additional time allow? Well, place. I did not want to spend a lot of time
Publisher Jon B. Johansen
SATURN needs to find a new berth. Just try reworking it into another program.
finding a place that can house a 117’foot tug. If that was not enough, I also ended up
Editor-in-Chief Rachel Elward
There are just a few places she can go and at the Newport International Boat Show in
none as convenient as I would like. Would Newport, Rhode Island and on the way back
have liked to have been in Rockland, but no from there I took in a Red Sox game. It had
Advertising Deadlines: The deadline for the November issue is 10 October.
berth could be had. been nearly 40 years since my last game,
The deadline for the December issue is 31 October.
I also got to spend a weekend at the which is way too long to be away from
Shipyard Cup in Boothbay, where I got to Fenway Park.
MCN's Calendar of Coastal Events
– October 31 Summer Exhibits at Museum 27 Lobster Boat Racing Awards and workload, comments on the new fishery; annual catch limits and
of Yachting and IYRS Banquet overfishing definition under consideration accountability measures; and quota
Museum of Yachting / Fort Adams Rockland in Amendment 15 to the Scallop Fishery allocation programs
State Park, Newport Info: (888) 333-8379 Management Plan (FMP) and possibly Approve recommendations for
IYRS Newport Campus / 449 Thames provide comments on a hypothesis research priorities for the 2010 research
Street, Newport OCTOBER forwarded to the Council concerning set-aside program
The International Yacht Restoration 3 Fling into Fall changes in resource productivity relative to 1230 – Lunch Break
School and The Museum of Yachting will Searsport the use of bottom-lending mobile gear. 1330 – Action Item: Framework
coordinate exhibits with restoration 1415 – Scallop Committee Report Adjustment 2 to the Spiny Dogfish FMP
projects in summer ’08, so visitors to 7-9 New England Fishery Management (David Simpson) (Council staff) initial meeting for this
Newport can see restorations underway Council Review updated biomass estimates action; discussion will include
and learn about the history of these Council Meeting Agenda for the Elephant Trunk and Delmarva access consideration of alternatives to adjust
watercraft and the individuals who 7 October, Tuesday areas provided by the Scallop Plan stock status determination criteria
designed them and sailed onboard in 0900 – Introductions and Development Team; no action is required (biological reference points) in the
displays of historic photos, artifacts, and announcements given that NMFS has the authority to reduce Dogfish FMP.
film footage. The summer ’08 exhibits 0905 – Reports on Recent Activities: the number of allowed trips in the areas if 1400 – Review of Experimental
focus on Sparkman & Stephens and the Council Chairman, Executive Director, biomass estimates fall below defined Fishery Permit (EFP) Applications
people behind the famous one-designs NMFS Regional Administrator, NOAA thresholds, as specified by the Council in (Council staff)
and ocean racers that put this design firm General Counsel, Northeast Fisheries Framework Adjustment 19 to the Scallop 1415 – Marine Protected Area
on the map, coupled with the building of Science Centre and Mid-Atlantic Fishery FMP; Discuss timelines for the various Framework and Nomination Process
a replica of the S&S-designed 6-Meter Management Council liaisons, and scallop actions and consider Council (Sam Rauch, Deputy Assistant
Cherokee. At IYRS, shipwrights will be representatives of the U. S. Coast Guard, approval of a request to analyze observer Administrator for Regulatory Programs,
working on the restoration of the 133-foot NMFS Enforcement/VMS and the Atlantic data and its use in yellowtail flounder NMFS, Silver Spring, MD) Review of
1885 schooner yacht Coronet while the States Marine Fisheries Commission. monitoring in the scallop access areas. NMFS’s final Marine Protected Area
museum hosts an exhibit on the voyages 1045 – Open Period for Public 8 October Framework and proposed Nomination
of Arthur Curtiss James (1867–1941), Comment (John Pappalardo) Opportunity 0830 – Herring Committee Report Process, followed by a question and
who owned and cruised worldwide for the public to provide brief comments on (Frank Blount) answer period.
onboard Coronet and his series of Aloha items relevant to Council business, but not Review committee progress to 1515 – ANPR for Conducting
yachts. Also on view will be an exhibit on otherwise listed on the agenda. develop management alternatives for Consultations Pursuant to Section
the America’s Cup during the Newport 1100 – Scoping Presentation for Amendment 4 to the Atlantic Herring FMP; 304(d) of the National Marine Sanctuary
years from 1930–1983, when Cup Highly Migratory Species Amendment 3: this will include but may not be limited to Act (Council staff) Discuss and approve
syndicates competed in J/Class and 12- Small Coastal Shark Issues (NMFS staff, approval of the following Council comments on the August 26, 2008
Meter yachts. Silver Prings, MD) recommendations: a catch monitoring Advanced Notice of Proposal
IYRS 1145 – ICCAT Issues (David Preble) program for the fishery (monitoring and Rulemaking.
449 Thames Street Update on the recent International reporting requirements for herring vessels 1600 – Trans-boundary
Newport, RI Commission of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and processors, observer coverage and at- Management Guidance Committee
Info: www.iyrs.org/401-848-5777 Advisory Panel meeting and consideration sea monitoring, shore-side monitoring and (TMGC) Report (John Pappalardo)
of draft Council comments concerning sampling, vessel monitoring system (VMS) Review and approve TMGC
SEPTEMBER bluefin tuna management. requirements, industry-funded observer recommendations for Total Allowable
27 PYC Fall Series 1215 – Lunch Break programs, applications for electronic Catches for eastern Georges Bank cod
Portland Yacht Club 1315 – Scientific and Statistical monitoring, and/or other measures and haddock and Georges Bank
Falmouth Foreside Committee Report (Dr. Steven Cadrin) suggested during the scoping process); yellowtail flounder for the 2009 fishing
Info: (207) 781-9820 Review committee discussions concerning management measures to address herring year.
a process to address committee priorities bycatch concerns in the Atlantic mackerel Continued on Page 14.
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