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Spring Tradition: Anglers Vied to Catch Penobscot’s Presidental Salmon

This article appeared in the Bangor Daily News on March 30, 2012.One hundred years ago, a local fly-fisherman decided to…

conservation, dam removal, fish, history, Maine, Penobscot River, restoration, rivers, salmon, seafood
sardine comic book cover

Long May They Run

Just a few months into 2010, the Year of the Sardine, news came that the Stinson Seafood plant in Prospect…

fish, history, Maine, seafood

New Orleans, the Gulf Coast, 2010

This essay was a finalist in Terrain‘s 2011 annual contest. I. Dimension At first, I see the lake, and then…

Gulf of Mexico, pollution, seafood

Redemption for the sea lamprey

Sea lamprey have a bad reputation as a flesh-eating monsters, but the sea-run fish are are native to the Maine…

dam removal, fish, Maine, Penobscot River, rivers, sea lamprey, The Working Waterfront

Welcome back, Alewives!

In May 2011, I rode a cargo ferry across Penobscot Bay to the island of North Haven with two Maine…

alewife, fish, Maine, Penobscot River, restoration, seafood, The Working Waterfront

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