Jonesport and Beals Island are two of the ... to the fishing docks through high school and college. In 2008, a lobster boat named Miss Melinda caught fire by the boat club’s float.

The Coast Guard is investigating the death of lobsterman Jon Popham, 28, who leaves behind a wife and 2-year-old son. The lobsterman who died Saturday after falling off a lobster boat about 2 ...

But there’s a strong tie between lobstering on the island and the lobster boat race series, which began in Jonesport-Beals nearly a century ago. “Lobstering is very important to the island as ...

But none come close to being as hardcore as the annual lobsterboat races in Jonesport. One weekend a year, fishermen and women, who usually use their boats to haul lobster traps, empty out their ...

The events, run by the Maine Lobster Boat Racing Association ... Mr. Beal charted a scenic southwesterly course from Jonesport. Alone on deck, he took in the sight of the rocky coastline and ...

In Jonesport and other fishing ports like Boothbay ... The races aren’t just about lobster boats. Nobody pretends that Johnson’s boat is used to pull lobster traps, but he’s allowed to ...

In Jonesport and other fishing ports like Boothbay ... The races aren’t just about lobster boats. Nobody pretends that Johnson’s boat is used to pull lobster traps, but he’s allowed to ...

There are 10 lobster boat races this season, in Boothbay Harbor, Rockland, Jonesport-Beals Island, Searsport, Stonington, Friendship, Harpswell, Winter Harbor, Pemaquid and Portland. Last week, the ...

And we have between 15 and 20 lobster boats they're going to deck out in Christmas lights and they'll sail out through the body of water between Beals Island and Jonesport. And they go up one side ...

Today, she has been captaining her own lobster boat for more than eight years. Heather Strout Thompson started lobstering at age 10. She fishes the state limit of 800 traps out of the rural harbor of ...

especially from a lobster boat. Earlier this winter, nearly one-fifth of the population was spotted by plane near Jeffreys Ledge, a busy fishing area in the Gulf of Maine. Back at the Jonesport ...