PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • July 25, 2022
Environmental advocates and volunteers working to reduce the amount of abandoned fishing gear in the Gulf of Maine hit pay dirt last month on a small privately-owned island off Corea, a small lobstering village east of Bar Harbor. With help from locals who provided a skiff and a spot on the wharf to put their dumpster, the small group brought back 4,723 pounds of so-called “ghost gear” to be trashed or recycled, including about 230 derelict lobster traps. The expedition to Outer Bar Island in late June was made up of people from Washington D.C.-based nonprofit Ocean Conservancy, local nonprofit Rozalia Project and the Maine Island Trail Association, a group that protects undeveloped islands along the coast.