PLEASANT POINT (AP) — Eighty-one years after a neglected tribal water supply caused a devastating outbreak of typhoid fever and a century after the state outlawed spearfishing of the salmon that fed their ancestors, Native American tribes who trace their history back millennia say their trust in the government of Maine is at an all-time […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Which is Maine’s most popular sport fish?
If you had to make a guess, what would you say are the three most popular, or sought after, freshwater fish in Maine? There is an answer, a clear, unequivocal answer to this question, and it is not based on guesswork or cracker barrel sessions with sport fishermen. It is an authoritative answer arrived at […]
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Maine panel votes against fishing pact with tribes
PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine legislative committee recommended Wednesday that the state not approve a request from a group of American Indian tribes for shared management of commercial fish species. Representatives for the tribes, led by sponsor and Passamaquoddy Tribe legislative Rep. Matthew Dana, have said their bill would allow state regulators to enter into […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Amendment may not be ‘silver bullet,’ but it would be well worth it
The stark fact that the Humane Society of the United States has announced its intentions to make another run at banning bear hunting in Maine, as early as next year, ought to be triggering alarm bells, not just in rural Maine and urban Maine, but in the legislative halls in Augusta. Earlier this month, two […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Simplifying Maine’s fishing rules a good place to start
Some of us fish to get away from it all, to escape from all of the trappings of modernity. And let’s face it, in this new century we are awash in rules and regulations. Sport fishing has not been immune to the times, either. In far too many cases, the fishing law book is a […]
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Maine fishermen set record $585 million haul in 2014
ROCKPORT — Maine fishermen set a state record with a catch valued at more than $585 million in 2014. State fishery officials told The Associated Press on Thursday that the combined fisheries jumped $44 million in value from 2013 to 2014. Lobsters accounted for more than $456 million of the total in 2014, reflecting a […]