Category: Marine

Working Waterfront

Where on the coast?

This week's mystery coastal scene is most certainly in the Downeast region. Another hint: there's a state park a stone's throw away, and last summer, The Working Waterfront featured a photo essay shot there. If you think you know where this is, email Tom Groening, editor of The Working Waterfront/Island… SEE MORE

Working Waterfront

Where on the coast is this harbor?

Can you identify this harbor on the Maine coast? The first five to do so—and email us at WhereOnTheCoast@gmail.com—will win a copy of the 2015 Island Journal, which we'll send to the winners. The only hint we'll give is to look closely at the upper right corner of the photograph. SEE MORE

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Alfond Foundation gives $3.1 million to Bigelow Lab for residences

The Harold Alfond Foundation announced a $3.1 million award to Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences for construction of a 32-bed student and visiting scientist residence with four visitor apartments on the laboratory’s East Boothbay campus. An anonymous donor has matched the award, allowing the project to break ground in April. A separate… SEE MORE
Darius Kasprzak demonstrates a jig rig.

Working Waterfront

‘Jig’ gear: a better way to catch ground fish

When Darius Kasprzak, skipper of the Marona and president of the Alaska Jig Association showed up in Rockland, he knew that his biggest problem in convincing Mainers the merits of jig-fishing was the lack of… well, fish.  “There ain’t ground fish in Penobscot Bay, and good luck finding them anywhere else,”… SEE MORE
Linda Greenlaw

Working Waterfront

The sea continues to lure Linda Greenlaw

The witty and colorful Linda Greenlaw was the featured attraction that night, but a pall hung over the Maine Maritime Academy campus on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 21. It had been just three weeks since the El Faro, a container ship traveling from Jacksonville, Fla., bound for Puerto Rico,… SEE MORE