Maine Lobster Festival 2017 Interivews 1. Margot Kelley on "CAUGHT: Time Place Fish" by Glenn Libby and Antonia Small.

CAUGHT: Time Place Fish  by Glenn Libby and Antonia Small. Published by Wrackline Press  

Listen to a 21 minute interview of Margot Kelley,  an editor at Wrackline.

Recorded during the 2017 Maine lobster Festival by Ron Huber, of WRFR Community Radio

Maine Fishermens Forum 2014 - Fishery Council rep reviews coming new habitat protection amendment - learns about bay mercury, dredging concerns

Rockport. The New England Fishery Management Council and NOAA's scientific leadership gave updates on important new coastal  habitat protections on the horizon before the members of Maine's fishing communities filling hundreds of folding chairs Friday at the 2014 Maine Fishermens Forum. 

Clamming & lobstering interests were there, and the hookers, harpooners, draggers, gillers and seiners of Maine's finfisheries. A handful of conservation ENGOs and journalists too.

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Listen below to Michelle Bachmann, habitat coordinator, New England Fishery Management Council, describe Omnibus Groundfish Habitat Amendment 2 and its implications for all New England fisheries.  This discussion  was followed by a panel of NOAA's top officials who similarly received careful questioning by the assembled.

NEFMC on new coastal habitat protection rules 

Introduction 1 min 35sec

Part 1. 8min 8 sec

Part 2. 5min 45 sec.

Part 3. 11 min.

Part 4. Q&A 7 min.

Part 5 Q&A 6min 58sec.

Part 6. Q&A 10 min 30 sec

Additional Question and answer session  19min 32sec

Windpower seminar at 2012 Maine Fishermen's Forum. Listen to groundfishers, lobstermen, tuna men, grill Statoil rep, academics, and govt officials

2012 Fishermen's Forum: offshore wind gets chilly reception.
Listen below to two panels and a room full of fishermen and others discussing both the Statoil proposal and the greater impacts of the additional offshore Gulf of Maine windfarms that would follow in Statoil's wake, (more than a thousand turbines projected).
 Note 1: static from nearby I Pads often jammed the digital audio recorder with overwhelming static, forcing editing out of  parts of several speakers including Glenn Libby and Pete Jumars. Note 2: If anyone is misidentified, please leave a comment to that effect and it will be corrected

OPENING STATEMENT
*  Darryl Francois BOEM opening statement 11min.mp3

INTRODUCTIONS
* Ken Fletcher Governor's office of energy independence_51sec

* Kari Hege Mork Statoil 26sec

 * Rick Bellance Rhode Island fisherman 10sec

* Pete Jumars UMaine 41sec

* John Weber, NROC 1min 48sec

* Paul Willliamson Me Wind Industry Initiative 75 sec

* Kari Hege Mork Statoi introduces video 2min 42sec

 *John Weber NROC 20sec.mp3

QUESTIONS FROM AUDIENCE

* Q: Richard Melton  Friendship Lobster Bait  1min44sec

* QA2 Geo Lapointe and Kari Hege Mork 3min 28sec

'* QA 3 audience 5min_45sec

*QA 4 Kari Hege Mork Windpark size 1 minute

* QA 5 Pete Jumars Edited due to noise

* QA6 Paul Anderson edited 7min

* QA 7. 4min_30sec

* QA 8 Glenn Libby edited 1min 30sec

* QA 9 1min_55sec

* QA 10 Kari Hege Mork 1min26sec

* QA 11 4min_30sec

* QA 12 Ron Huber 3min 43sec

* QA 13 Ken Fletcher others on showstoppers 4min 55sec

QA 14 Small biz admin 1 min

* QA 15_final words

PART 3 BREAK OUT GROUPS AND CLOSING

* Keliher comments 2min

*  Bruce MacDonald intro fishpanel_2min_45sec

* Breakout Groups Introduction 47sec

* Chris Weiner, Portland tuna fisherman. 6min 9sec

* Breakout Group 2. Patrice MLA 3min 50sec

* Breakout Group 3 Bruce MacDonald 55sec

* Breakout group 4 Mary Beth Tooley, 1min_32sec

* Breakout Group 5 Cushman 1min 11sec.mp3

 PART 3 COMPLETE 57 MINUTES (above is only 1/3 of Part 3)

Maine Fishermen's Forum 2011 seminar "Bringing Back the Fish" Listen to recordings

Maine Fishermen's Forum 2011.   

Recording  of "Bringing Back the Fish" seminar.

 

Why are some fishing grounds empty when others  show increases in several important New England groundfish stocks? Why aren’t the fish found on inshore grounds along much of New England’s coast? Listen to 5 fishermen, a government scientist and a conservationist discuss how the Gulf of Maine fishes have changed over their fishing careers and lifetimes, and what's to be done.

Audio of "Bringing Back the Fish"
1. Billy Chaprales, F/V Reuby. 2 minutes
2. Glenn Libby, F/V Skipper. 5 minutes
3. Jake Kritzer NEFMC. 2 minutes
4. Jason Joyce, F/V Andanamra. 6 minutes
5. Jim Odlin, Atlantic Trawlers. 6 minutes
6. Q&A 1. 12 minutes
7. Q&A 2. 5 minutes
8. Q&A 3. 16 minutes
9. Q&A 4. 17 minutes
10. Q&A 5. 4minutes