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The Rockland-based O'Hara corporation serves many aspects of the fishing industry, including boat storage and repair. But it's the bait side of their operation that has Maine's lobstermen excited at the moment. Company vice-president Frank O'Hara Jr. says federal cutbacks in the herring quota a few years ago have led to an ongoing shortage of bait for the lobster industry. But he's confident this is about to change, following the recent acquisition of a 58,000 square-foot warehouse on Route 1.
Most of the facility, O'Hara says, will be given over to boat storage and office space, but a significant amount of space is also being used to address the bait shortage, "using about 25 percent of it for a freezer to hold bait that's coming in from the west coast, from Iceland and New Zealand to replace the shortage of fresh herring that we're unable to catch now," he says. Read the complete story and listen to the audio from The Maine Public Broadcasting Network.
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MELISSA WOOD, NATIONAL FISHERMEN: Meting out the meager
May 22, 2012 - Listening to the New England Council's Groundfish Advisory Panel talk about how that industry is going to pay for monitoring costs is kind of like trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you've just lost your job. Though monitoring is important keeping costs down is critical. As Panel Member Gary Libby pointed out, "If we had 100 percent monitoring we probably wouldn't have an industry."
