Word: lobstermen
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Killina Blow. Cliff Island could not afford to lose Seymour, or Ben O'Reilly Jr., who plows the heavy winter snows, or Bunk MacVane, Bub Anderson and Bruce Dyer, lobstermen all. Four hundred winter people lived on the island 70 years ago, but residents have been moving to the mainland and its more varied jobs for years. An exodus of the remaining young families would be the killing blow. The post office, the general store, the snow plow and even the daily ferry would stop. The island, still populated by descendants of its 17th century settlers, would become...
...jobs. But the biggest problem of all -one that has already caused 13 townships around Penobscot Bay to oppose the project-is the danger to the local fishing and tourist industries. Scientists testified that oil was "an environmental poison" with long aftereffects. Ossie Beal, president of the Maine Lobstermen's Association, contends that tankers and barges would sweep away most of the 186,000 lobster pots in the bay. "If there was an oil spill," he says, "well, we'd be out of business down here...
...Rockland, Me., Kuralt went out on a fishing boat and reported: "From Calais down to Kittery, the lobstermen agree: Maine lobsters are, as they say Down East, 'scarcing up.' " The report ended with Kuralt seated before a shore dinner: "We should add, reassuringly, that the lobster has not vanished, though this one is about to. Maine lobsters are more elusive than ever, but just as tasty as ever when consumed with drawn butter on an expense account...
...have paid little mind to fishermen from Brittany who dropped their nets near by and returned home with holds filled with the live, spiny lobsters. Occasionally the Brazilian navy stopped a trawler for venturing too near shore, but there was little fuss about it. Then two months ago, local lobstermen woke up to the fact that the French were nipping quite a chunk out of their $3,000,000 annual export business. Hair-triggered Brazilian jingoists joined in the protest...
...down on some rich squire (such as a boy carrying groceries home), rob him and eat his riches in the forest. In Port Clyde, Maine, where the family spent the summers, Andy found another native nonconformist. Together they learned to handle a dory in heavy surf and to loot lobstermen's pots at night...