Alewives passing the viewing window at the Benton Dam fish ladder on the Sabasticook River, near Waterville, Maine. State and private groups have been attempting to restore ancient alewife access by building fish ladders at dams. Millions of alewives travel upstream every spring to spawn in thousands of lakes and ponds. For centuries alewives have been a food fish for humans, a bait fish for lobstermen and an important forage fish in the Gulf of Maine. © Photo by Sam Murfitt
Lobster Marketing Moves Into First-Year Outreach
by Laurie Schreiber
ROCKPORT – Four months after the first board for the new Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative was formed, outreach plans are well underway. “We finally have a workable budget,”said board member Vaughn Stinson, who is executive director of the Maine Tourism Association. “From my standpoint in the tourism industry, when I arrived here in 1998 in this position, I was appalled that we had about a million dollars per year to promote Maine’s largest industry….Give me a break. I can do more than that standing down in Kittery with flyers.”
Speaking recently at the Maine Fishermen’s Forum, Marianne Lacroix, the collaboratives’s acting director, said the collaborative was officially formed last October, and the first 10 of 11 board
