By The Numbers

In India there are 617,500,000 people with access to a mobile phone.

About 366,000,000 Indians have access to a toilet.

Since last year the projected change in the amount of money states receive from corporate taxes: negative $2.500,000,000.

Since May Goldman Sachs has submitted 2,500,000,000 pages of documents to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

209? The number of days Federal investigators have to review those documents before issuing a final report.

Since 2005 the average annual government expenditure on military research and development has been $77,000,000,000.

The value of Pentagon fuel contracts awarded to BP last year $2,200,000,000.

BP’s ranking among largest fuel suppliers to the Defense Department: #1.

Of all the seafood consumed in the United States, 83% is imported.

India’s court system currently has an estimated 30,000,000 cases pending.

CONTENTS

Lobster Plant

Paul Revere And His Bells

Editorial

Processor Reacts to Decision

Last Cannery May Be First Lobster Processor

Something Fishy

Steuben Trap Cooker Cleaning Up

Seafood Stewardship Questionable Experts Say

Protecting Lobster from Ocean to Plate

Triggerfish Startles Lobsterman

Bluefin Season Best in Years

Offshore Reporting Large Numbers of Bluefin

Toyota Tsusho Eyes Tuna Farming

By the Numbers

Commercial Fishing Life In Newfoundland

Limited Entry Considered for Scallop Fishery

Lobster Landings Up, Earnings Down

Op-Ed

Back Then

Deer Hunting

I’m Okay, Sam

Rapid Loss of Stability Sank Patriot

Notice of Closure of the Commercial Porbeagle Shark Fishery

October Meetings

Online Classifieds

Out-of-State Yacht Clubs Support Maine Trap Recovery Program

ZF Marine – By Sea, Land and Air

October Events

Capt. Mark East’s Advice Column