Stop your Whining lol sorry I couldnt resistNot me, 3 lousy inches!!
Only in Maine
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Well played Sir, although the very small conspiracy theorist in me wonders if you put Mike up to his post, then Very Well Played!!
For the record, here's our county's totals, we're in the BBH area...
Lincoln County
- Boothbay Harbor: 2.5 inches
- Dresden: 13.9 inches
- Waldoboro: 9.2 inches
- Wiscasset: 13.6 inches
This would be under Not Only in Maine...don't worry ICE is on the way...
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Portland Office Becomes a Hub for Medicaid "Home Health" and Somali Money Transfers
An investigation into an unassuming office building on Portland’s Anderson Street has revealed an interlinked network of lucrative Medicaid agencies co-located with Dahabshiil, an Emirati money transfer business favored by the Central Bank of Somalia. MaineCare spending records obtained under...
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They've been here for almost 2 weeks now...This would be under Not Only in Maine...don't worry ICE is on the way...
Portland Office Becomes a Hub for Medicaid "Home Health" and Somali Money Transfers
An investigation into an unassuming office building on Portland’s Anderson Street has revealed an interlinked network of lucrative Medicaid agencies co-located with Dahabshiil, an Emirati money transfer business favored by the Central Bank of Somalia. MaineCare spending records obtained under...
Border Patrol arrests 4 men on Golden Road in Maine after tip from maple sugar workers
The men told officers they were unaware that they had crossed into the U.S., according to court records. Agents say video footage and phone texts tell another story.Border Patrol agents arrested four men in Maine near Canada last week and they are now facing federal charges of illegally entering the country without inspection.
The men, who told federal officers they are from the United Kingdom, were found Friday morning walking down a 96-mile private logging route in Maine known as Golden Road, according to court records.
Ali Mohamed Ali Abdullah, 18; Hameed Mohammed Nagi, 21; Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, 27; and Mohammed Sultan Saleh, 22, were each charged in U.S. District Court in Bangor with entry without inspection.
Defense attorneys for the men either declined to comment or did not immediately respond to requests on Wednesday.
Agents also arrested two U.S. citizens who they believed were attempting to smuggle the men into the U.S., according to an affidavit signed Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent Scott Hanton.
The pair, who are not named in court records, were sitting in a car that had run out of gas at the end of a maple sugar shack driveway, about 10 miles from where the four men were found, according to the affidavit. Agents said they found a 9mm handgun under the driver’s seat.
It’s unclear whether the two U.S. citizens will face charges. A federal prosecutor declined to answer questions about them Wednesday.
The passenger told agents that the driver indicated he had brought one of the four arrested men to the same location about a month earlier, according to the affidavit.
Hanton wrote that a couple of maple sugar workers who had crossed the border at a St. Zacharie port of entry that morning had reported seeing the four men walking along Golden Road. Another man called Border Patrol to report a gray car at the end of his driveway near Golden Road and the maple sugar workers told agents the car’s driver and passenger were asking passersby for fuel and WiFi.
The men arrested on Golden Road told agents they had been hiking and weren’t aware they were in the U.S., according to the affidavit. Hanton wrote that a Homeland Security Investigations officer reviewed their cellphones and found “Go-Pro” camera footage of one of the men, Saleh, telling the group several times that they were now on U.S. soil.
Agents said footprints revealed the group had crossed the border a few hundred feet from the St. Zacharie port of entry, Hanton wrote. Cell phone records also showed they had been using GPS, and that one of the men was searching online for information about the nearest port of entry and directions to Bangor.
New twist on Maine Lobster Turf Wars, which are real. We pass this place on the way to a Lobster Shack we occasionally visit and it's a real PITA to drive past. Looks like it's worse on a lobster boat...
The 45-foot smack boat Jack Black, owned by Mazzetta Co., right, and the Miss Laura, operated by Josh Harjula, a member of the Spruce Head Fishermen's Co-op, are tied up at the neighboring wharves Monday in Spruce Head, a village in South Thomaston. With Miss Laura backed in, the configuration creates a longer, more labor-intensive loading process for co-op crews.
In a crowded harbor on Spruce Head Island, where Midcoast Maine folds into the Atlantic, a lobster turf war is brewing — not over fishing territory, but over which boats can squeeze a living out of the island’s tiny working waterfront.
On one side is Spruce Head Fishermen’s Co-op, a century-old bastion of about 40 independent lobstermen. On the other is Mazzetta Co., the multimillion-dollar Chicago-based seafood giant that buys local lobster from 58 fishermen to sell in the global market.
The dispute between waterfront neighbors has turned this sleepy fishing village 15 minutes south of Rockland into a legal battleground. At the heart of the battle is a proposed dock expansion and an old, strategically moored smack boat once used to carry lobster to market.
It started with a blueprint. On paper, Mazzetta’s expansion is an infrastructure upgrade. The co-op considers it a maritime taking that would lead to its closure and cede control of Maine’s fourth most valuable lobster port to an out-of-state corporation.
The proposed expansion would make the already narrow lane between the rival wharves so small that no boat over 50 feet long could reach the co-op’s bait and trap loading station. Smaller vessels would need ropes and dockside helpers, but even that would require calm seas.
“It would make it impossible for the co-op to stay in business,” said David Cousens, the longtime co-op president. “We can’t risk banging up our boats. We don’t have the time to walk 100 pounds of bait up and down a plank or wait an hour every day to sell our catch.”
High dock prices have helped Maine lobstermen survive the financial consequences of rising fuel and bait prices and a declining catch. In 2024, Spruce Head lobstermen earned $6.14 a pound, the second highest yearly dock price on record, according to state data.
The Spruce Head branch of Mazzetta Co. — which goes by the name of the local lobster dealer, Atwood Lobster, that it acquired in 2011 — did not return calls or emails asking about the dock expansion plan or the co-op’s claim that it would block their boats.
In filings with the state, however, Mazzetta leans into Atwood’s seven-decade history in Spruce Head to portray itself as a community fixture, despite the former owner’s legal claims that Mazzetta tried to exploit his dementia to force him out of the industry.
The state filing says the expansion is part of a $3.2 million project to repair damage caused by the devastating winter storms of 2023-24, raise the decks by a foot to withstand sea level rise and add space for another 20 vessels. The work is partially funded by two state grants.
In response to the co-op’s initial complaints, Mazzetta dropped its plan to install a float and ramp on the north side of its wharf, on the co-op side. “This substantial compromise by (Mazzetta) was a sacrifice of operational needs,” the company wrote in its filings.
But the co-op refused to budge: The revision wouldn’t give members access to the loading station.
In January, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection approved Mazzetta’s permit without a public hearing. The co-op appealed. Mazzetta said the appeal would delay its work and jeopardize the project’s state funding.
Even if the court rejects the co-op’s appeal, Mazzetta still needs the blessing of town officials to move ahead with the expansion. With the co-op crying foul, local approval could be difficult for the out-of-state company to secure.
Then, about a month later, Mazzetta moved an old lobster buying boat called the Jack Black to its wharf. The placement of this 45-foot boat at Mazzetta’s wharf is surgical: parked in the footprint of the planned expansion, it recreates the blockade effect the co-op is trying to stop in its appeal.
The smack boat — which is not being used and on some days can’t even start — has paralyzed the co-op’s bait and trap-loading operations. Co-op boats have had to engage in perilous and time-consuming maneuvers just to use their own pier, according to the co-op manager, Casey Morrill.
Jarod Bray, a 42-year-old co-op member who fishes the waters around Matinicus Island, set the last of his 800 traps days before the Jack Black arrived in Spruce Head. But most co-op members aren’t so lucky, Bray said. They have yet to set their traps.
The seasonal fishermen will have to walk their 40- to 60-pound traps down the gangway one or two at a time or spend about $1,000 on diesel to load traps in Tenants Harbor, a half-hour steam to the south, Bray said.
With the Jack Black tied up like it is, Bray won’t be able to bait up like usual. Instead, he must back his 47-foot vessel up to the loading station. In doing so, however, the Artemis takes up the bulk of the co-op’s dock, blocking other co-op members from the lobster buying station.
The rivalry has devolved into something ugly, Bray said. It’s so far above and beyond competition that, should the co-op go under, Bray said he would rather spend the time and money required to sell his lobsters in a different port than do business with Mazzetta.
“In a trap war, people can lose a little money, and everybody gets mad,” he said. “Now we’re talking million-dollar businesses. That’s a whole new level. That’s about putting a bunch of Spruce Head fishermen and their crews out of business.”
According to Cousens, the co-op has asked the following officials for help: the code enforcement officer, local selectmen, Marine Patrol, the state agencies overseeing marine resources and parks and lands, Attorney General Aaron Frey, Gov. Janet Mills and the U.S. Coast Guard.
No regulator appears to have the will or authority to wade into these murky jurisdictional waters.
“I do not have an answer,” said South Thomaston First Selectman John Spear in an email. “The Selectboard has not discussed this, but my personal understanding is that absent a harbormaster the town has no authority to intervene.”
Selectman Jeff Northgraves agreed with Spear, but added: “It’s bound to be resolved by a judge.”
Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Carl Wilson has “been in contact with both parties to urge them to resolve this issue in a constructive way by seeking compromise,” said a department spokesman on Tuesday.
State laws and rules offer some guidance, often without specifying who should enforce it.
Under Maine’s submerged lands rules, any new dock or pier must generally be set back at least 25 feet from the boundary line that extends from someone’s land out into the water up to 1,000 feet. This creates a 50-foot no-build buffer between two neighboring docks.
Under the state’s century-old wharves and weirs law, people can’t build a structure that interferes with their neighbor’s ability to reach navigable waters. With state permits, shorefront owners are entitled to “wharf out,” or build a dock to reach navigable depths, even though they don’t own the submerged land beneath it.
For now, the smack boat remains at its mooring, rising and falling with the 10-foot tides, while the co-op waits for a judge to hear its request for the boat to be moved. Meanwhile, the state has yet to set a court date for the co-op’s appeal of Mazzetta’s expansion permit.
And in the quiet harbor of Spruce Head, still two to three months from the traditional start date for Maine’s summer lobster season, two neighbors continue to stare each other down from their abutting wharves, waiting to see who blinks first.
A lobster turf war is brewing in coastal Maine
A battle between a local co-op and a seafood conglomerate in Spruce Head has escalated from permit disputes to a floating blockade, testing the limits of the working waterfront.
In a crowded harbor on Spruce Head Island, where Midcoast Maine folds into the Atlantic, a lobster turf war is brewing — not over fishing territory, but over which boats can squeeze a living out of the island’s tiny working waterfront.
On one side is Spruce Head Fishermen’s Co-op, a century-old bastion of about 40 independent lobstermen. On the other is Mazzetta Co., the multimillion-dollar Chicago-based seafood giant that buys local lobster from 58 fishermen to sell in the global market.
The dispute between waterfront neighbors has turned this sleepy fishing village 15 minutes south of Rockland into a legal battleground. At the heart of the battle is a proposed dock expansion and an old, strategically moored smack boat once used to carry lobster to market.
It started with a blueprint. On paper, Mazzetta’s expansion is an infrastructure upgrade. The co-op considers it a maritime taking that would lead to its closure and cede control of Maine’s fourth most valuable lobster port to an out-of-state corporation.
The proposed expansion would make the already narrow lane between the rival wharves so small that no boat over 50 feet long could reach the co-op’s bait and trap loading station. Smaller vessels would need ropes and dockside helpers, but even that would require calm seas.
“It would make it impossible for the co-op to stay in business,” said David Cousens, the longtime co-op president. “We can’t risk banging up our boats. We don’t have the time to walk 100 pounds of bait up and down a plank or wait an hour every day to sell our catch.”
THE PRICE OF COMPETITION
The co-op alleges a predatory motive: Without competition, some independent fishermen would likely sell their catch to Mazzetta. Given the high cost of diesel, Mazzetta could cut the dock price without worrying about lobstermen selling their catch in other ports.High dock prices have helped Maine lobstermen survive the financial consequences of rising fuel and bait prices and a declining catch. In 2024, Spruce Head lobstermen earned $6.14 a pound, the second highest yearly dock price on record, according to state data.
The Spruce Head branch of Mazzetta Co. — which goes by the name of the local lobster dealer, Atwood Lobster, that it acquired in 2011 — did not return calls or emails asking about the dock expansion plan or the co-op’s claim that it would block their boats.
In filings with the state, however, Mazzetta leans into Atwood’s seven-decade history in Spruce Head to portray itself as a community fixture, despite the former owner’s legal claims that Mazzetta tried to exploit his dementia to force him out of the industry.
The state filing says the expansion is part of a $3.2 million project to repair damage caused by the devastating winter storms of 2023-24, raise the decks by a foot to withstand sea level rise and add space for another 20 vessels. The work is partially funded by two state grants.
In response to the co-op’s initial complaints, Mazzetta dropped its plan to install a float and ramp on the north side of its wharf, on the co-op side. “This substantial compromise by (Mazzetta) was a sacrifice of operational needs,” the company wrote in its filings.
But the co-op refused to budge: The revision wouldn’t give members access to the loading station.
In January, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection approved Mazzetta’s permit without a public hearing. The co-op appealed. Mazzetta said the appeal would delay its work and jeopardize the project’s state funding.
Even if the court rejects the co-op’s appeal, Mazzetta still needs the blessing of town officials to move ahead with the expansion. With the co-op crying foul, local approval could be difficult for the out-of-state company to secure.
A SURGICALLY PLACED SMACK BOAT
The cold war turned hot after the co-op filed its appeal in February. That drew state inspectors to Spruce Head, where they discovered that Mazzetta had installed two floating docks on the south side without the necessary state permits. The state has ordered at least one removed by May.Then, about a month later, Mazzetta moved an old lobster buying boat called the Jack Black to its wharf. The placement of this 45-foot boat at Mazzetta’s wharf is surgical: parked in the footprint of the planned expansion, it recreates the blockade effect the co-op is trying to stop in its appeal.
The smack boat — which is not being used and on some days can’t even start — has paralyzed the co-op’s bait and trap-loading operations. Co-op boats have had to engage in perilous and time-consuming maneuvers just to use their own pier, according to the co-op manager, Casey Morrill.
Jarod Bray, a 42-year-old co-op member who fishes the waters around Matinicus Island, set the last of his 800 traps days before the Jack Black arrived in Spruce Head. But most co-op members aren’t so lucky, Bray said. They have yet to set their traps.
The seasonal fishermen will have to walk their 40- to 60-pound traps down the gangway one or two at a time or spend about $1,000 on diesel to load traps in Tenants Harbor, a half-hour steam to the south, Bray said.
With the Jack Black tied up like it is, Bray won’t be able to bait up like usual. Instead, he must back his 47-foot vessel up to the loading station. In doing so, however, the Artemis takes up the bulk of the co-op’s dock, blocking other co-op members from the lobster buying station.
The rivalry has devolved into something ugly, Bray said. It’s so far above and beyond competition that, should the co-op go under, Bray said he would rather spend the time and money required to sell his lobsters in a different port than do business with Mazzetta.
“In a trap war, people can lose a little money, and everybody gets mad,” he said. “Now we’re talking million-dollar businesses. That’s a whole new level. That’s about putting a bunch of Spruce Head fishermen and their crews out of business.”
‘I DON’T HAVE AN ANSWER’
The dispute also has spiraled into a referendum on the Wild West nature of Maine’s working waterfronts. Without a local harbormaster — the town has rejected the idea on several occasions — the co-op appears to have nowhere to turn except the court.According to Cousens, the co-op has asked the following officials for help: the code enforcement officer, local selectmen, Marine Patrol, the state agencies overseeing marine resources and parks and lands, Attorney General Aaron Frey, Gov. Janet Mills and the U.S. Coast Guard.
No regulator appears to have the will or authority to wade into these murky jurisdictional waters.
“I do not have an answer,” said South Thomaston First Selectman John Spear in an email. “The Selectboard has not discussed this, but my personal understanding is that absent a harbormaster the town has no authority to intervene.”
Selectman Jeff Northgraves agreed with Spear, but added: “It’s bound to be resolved by a judge.”
Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Carl Wilson has “been in contact with both parties to urge them to resolve this issue in a constructive way by seeking compromise,” said a department spokesman on Tuesday.
State laws and rules offer some guidance, often without specifying who should enforce it.
Under Maine’s submerged lands rules, any new dock or pier must generally be set back at least 25 feet from the boundary line that extends from someone’s land out into the water up to 1,000 feet. This creates a 50-foot no-build buffer between two neighboring docks.
Under the state’s century-old wharves and weirs law, people can’t build a structure that interferes with their neighbor’s ability to reach navigable waters. With state permits, shorefront owners are entitled to “wharf out,” or build a dock to reach navigable depths, even though they don’t own the submerged land beneath it.
For now, the smack boat remains at its mooring, rising and falling with the 10-foot tides, while the co-op waits for a judge to hear its request for the boat to be moved. Meanwhile, the state has yet to set a court date for the co-op’s appeal of Mazzetta’s expansion permit.
And in the quiet harbor of Spruce Head, still two to three months from the traditional start date for Maine’s summer lobster season, two neighbors continue to stare each other down from their abutting wharves, waiting to see who blinks first.
New twist on Maine Lobster Turf Wars, which are real. We pass this place on the way to a Lobster Shack we occasionally visit and it's a real PITA to drive past. Looks like it's worse on a lobster boat...
A lobster turf war is brewing in coastal Maine
A battle between a local co-op and a seafood conglomerate in Spruce Head has escalated from permit disputes to a floating blockade, testing the limits of the working waterfront.
The 45-foot smack boat Jack Black, owned by Mazzetta Co., right, and the Miss Laura, operated by Josh Harjula, a member of the Spruce Head Fishermen's Co-op, are tied up at the neighboring wharves Monday in Spruce Head, a village in South Thomaston. With Miss Laura backed in, the configuration creates a longer, more labor-intensive loading process for co-op crews.
In a crowded harbor on Spruce Head Island, where Midcoast Maine folds into the Atlantic, a lobster turf war is brewing — not over fishing territory, but over which boats can squeeze a living out of the island’s tiny working waterfront.
On one side is Spruce Head Fishermen’s Co-op, a century-old bastion of about 40 independent lobstermen. On the other is Mazzetta Co., the multimillion-dollar Chicago-based seafood giant that buys local lobster from 58 fishermen to sell in the global market.
The dispute between waterfront neighbors has turned this sleepy fishing village 15 minutes south of Rockland into a legal battleground. At the heart of the battle is a proposed dock expansion and an old, strategically moored smack boat once used to carry lobster to market.
It started with a blueprint. On paper, Mazzetta’s expansion is an infrastructure upgrade. The co-op considers it a maritime taking that would lead to its closure and cede control of Maine’s fourth most valuable lobster port to an out-of-state corporation.
The proposed expansion would make the already narrow lane between the rival wharves so small that no boat over 50 feet long could reach the co-op’s bait and trap loading station. Smaller vessels would need ropes and dockside helpers, but even that would require calm seas.
“It would make it impossible for the co-op to stay in business,” said David Cousens, the longtime co-op president. “We can’t risk banging up our boats. We don’t have the time to walk 100 pounds of bait up and down a plank or wait an hour every day to sell our catch.”
THE PRICE OF COMPETITION
The co-op alleges a predatory motive: Without competition, some independent fishermen would likely sell their catch to Mazzetta. Given the high cost of diesel, Mazzetta could cut the dock price without worrying about lobstermen selling their catch in other ports.
High dock prices have helped Maine lobstermen survive the financial consequences of rising fuel and bait prices and a declining catch. In 2024, Spruce Head lobstermen earned $6.14 a pound, the second highest yearly dock price on record, according to state data.
The Spruce Head branch of Mazzetta Co. — which goes by the name of the local lobster dealer, Atwood Lobster, that it acquired in 2011 — did not return calls or emails asking about the dock expansion plan or the co-op’s claim that it would block their boats.
In filings with the state, however, Mazzetta leans into Atwood’s seven-decade history in Spruce Head to portray itself as a community fixture, despite the former owner’s legal claims that Mazzetta tried to exploit his dementia to force him out of the industry.
The state filing says the expansion is part of a $3.2 million project to repair damage caused by the devastating winter storms of 2023-24, raise the decks by a foot to withstand sea level rise and add space for another 20 vessels. The work is partially funded by two state grants.
In response to the co-op’s initial complaints, Mazzetta dropped its plan to install a float and ramp on the north side of its wharf, on the co-op side. “This substantial compromise by (Mazzetta) was a sacrifice of operational needs,” the company wrote in its filings.
But the co-op refused to budge: The revision wouldn’t give members access to the loading station.
In January, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection approved Mazzetta’s permit without a public hearing. The co-op appealed. Mazzetta said the appeal would delay its work and jeopardize the project’s state funding.
Even if the court rejects the co-op’s appeal, Mazzetta still needs the blessing of town officials to move ahead with the expansion. With the co-op crying foul, local approval could be difficult for the out-of-state company to secure.
A SURGICALLY PLACED SMACK BOAT
The cold war turned hot after the co-op filed its appeal in February. That drew state inspectors to Spruce Head, where they discovered that Mazzetta had installed two floating docks on the south side without the necessary state permits. The state has ordered at least one removed by May.
Then, about a month later, Mazzetta moved an old lobster buying boat called the Jack Black to its wharf. The placement of this 45-foot boat at Mazzetta’s wharf is surgical: parked in the footprint of the planned expansion, it recreates the blockade effect the co-op is trying to stop in its appeal.
The smack boat — which is not being used and on some days can’t even start — has paralyzed the co-op’s bait and trap-loading operations. Co-op boats have had to engage in perilous and time-consuming maneuvers just to use their own pier, according to the co-op manager, Casey Morrill.
Jarod Bray, a 42-year-old co-op member who fishes the waters around Matinicus Island, set the last of his 800 traps days before the Jack Black arrived in Spruce Head. But most co-op members aren’t so lucky, Bray said. They have yet to set their traps.
The seasonal fishermen will have to walk their 40- to 60-pound traps down the gangway one or two at a time or spend about $1,000 on diesel to load traps in Tenants Harbor, a half-hour steam to the south, Bray said.
With the Jack Black tied up like it is, Bray won’t be able to bait up like usual. Instead, he must back his 47-foot vessel up to the loading station. In doing so, however, the Artemis takes up the bulk of the co-op’s dock, blocking other co-op members from the lobster buying station.
The rivalry has devolved into something ugly, Bray said. It’s so far above and beyond competition that, should the co-op go under, Bray said he would rather spend the time and money required to sell his lobsters in a different port than do business with Mazzetta.
“In a trap war, people can lose a little money, and everybody gets mad,” he said. “Now we’re talking million-dollar businesses. That’s a whole new level. That’s about putting a bunch of Spruce Head fishermen and their crews out of business.”
‘I DON’T HAVE AN ANSWER’
The dispute also has spiraled into a referendum on the Wild West nature of Maine’s working waterfronts. Without a local harbormaster — the town has rejected the idea on several occasions — the co-op appears to have nowhere to turn except the court.
According to Cousens, the co-op has asked the following officials for help: the code enforcement officer, local selectmen, Marine Patrol, the state agencies overseeing marine resources and parks and lands, Attorney General Aaron Frey, Gov. Janet Mills and the U.S. Coast Guard.
No regulator appears to have the will or authority to wade into these murky jurisdictional waters.
“I do not have an answer,” said South Thomaston First Selectman John Spear in an email. “The Selectboard has not discussed this, but my personal understanding is that absent a harbormaster the town has no authority to intervene.”
Selectman Jeff Northgraves agreed with Spear, but added: “It’s bound to be resolved by a judge.”
Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Carl Wilson has “been in contact with both parties to urge them to resolve this issue in a constructive way by seeking compromise,” said a department spokesman on Tuesday.
State laws and rules offer some guidance, often without specifying who should enforce it.
Under Maine’s submerged lands rules, any new dock or pier must generally be set back at least 25 feet from the boundary line that extends from someone’s land out into the water up to 1,000 feet. This creates a 50-foot no-build buffer between two neighboring docks.
Under the state’s century-old wharves and weirs law, people can’t build a structure that interferes with their neighbor’s ability to reach navigable waters. With state permits, shorefront owners are entitled to “wharf out,” or build a dock to reach navigable depths, even though they don’t own the submerged land beneath it.
For now, the smack boat remains at its mooring, rising and falling with the 10-foot tides, while the co-op waits for a judge to hear its request for the boat to be moved. Meanwhile, the state has yet to set a court date for the co-op’s appeal of Mazzetta’s expansion permit.
And in the quiet harbor of Spruce Head, still two to three months from the traditional start date for Maine’s summer lobster season, two neighbors continue to stare each other down from their abutting wharves, waiting to see who blinks first.
“The seasonal fishermen will have to walk their 40- to 60-pound traps down the gangway one or two at a time or spend about $1,000 on diesel to load traps in Tenants Harbor, a half-hour steam to the south, Bray said”
For simple math let’s use $5 a gallon for diesel. What type of lobster boat would burn 200 gallons making the 1 hour round trip steam to Tenants Harbor?
That quote is regarding a seasonal fishermen so it's an Apr/May - Oct/Nov total, which makes sense...
Would you agree Roccus ?
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10 Best Coastal Seafood Spots In Maine To Try In 2026
Discover Maine’s best coastal seafood spots, serving legendary lobster rolls, fresh oysters, and waterfront views you won’t forget.
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First, I've only been to 3 of the ones listed, so I'll comment specifically on those, BUT it's a typical, F-ing hyped for tourist, list of overpriced tourist traps. You have to understand that all resident Mainers and PFAs have a favorite, local seafood shack, but they're rarely the overhyped tourist traps. One thing for you touristas, many of these are BYOB so you save a ton of money on adult beverages...Would you agree Roccus ?
10 Best Coastal Seafood Spots In Maine To Try In 2026
Discover Maine’s best coastal seafood spots, serving legendary lobster rolls, fresh oysters, and waterfront views you won’t forget.
#6 - Reds Eats: FUCK NO!!!!!! The food isn't bad, but it's way overpriced and the GD tourists flock there like Flies to Shit because it's on multiple "YOU MUST GO THERE LISTS", causing huge traffic jams in the summer, basically bringing US-1 to a standstill, driving those of us who live nearby crazy. They only take cash and the ATM sits right next to the order window and you better be ready to pay dearly.
The Roccus Favorite Tourist Taunts at Reds Eats, used when sitting in traffic next to the HOURS LONG line for Reds:
- Guess you must love the aroma of diesel fumes with your over-priced lobster roll!!
- Hey, anyone on that line actually live around here?? Of course nobody responds so I then "seal the deal"! Did you all see that??? All us locals just love seafood, but we sure don't get it here!!
#8 - Shaw's Fish & Lobster Wharf - That would be a Hard No: It's the closest to Chez Roccus, a 5 minute ride, but they are not BYOB and most importantly, they can't cook fish for crap. Only tried it once and we got Swordfish Gverbed, fish so overcooked it was dry as the Sahara. That was enough for a life-long ban... Local Story: The bar scene in the movie Message in a Bottle was shot there and an extra in that scene, a very Maine looking gentleman with a beard, happened to be a retired trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and a neighbor of mine.
Our favorite lobster shack is Lusty's Catch at Broad Cove Marine, a non-descript place out on a working dock where the only smells are lobster bait and low tide. The views are amazing and the food is good, and fairly priced; all the locals go there with their coolers of beer and wine. Besides the local lobster fleet, there is a contingent of summer people who live on one of the nearby islands, resulting in a long line of propane tanks for those folks' residences...
Pic at Lusty's: This is how locals Lobster Shack!!
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The Missing Fish!The Missing Fish 198 fish went into the study. 198 fish came out alive. So where did 9% come...
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