This is the 46-foot fishing vessel BACC AT IT from Vinalhaven Island. She recently has been in our waters seine-netting schools of menhaden, the small perches usually called pogies here.
State and regional regulators reopened the pogy quota to avoid a lobster bait shortage. Ironically, that bait shortage concern was caused primarily by a protective reduction earlier this year of the quota for netting herring, the preferred lobster bait fish that has been stressed.
BACC sells some of its pogy catch to the bait and lobster smack operation for local fishermen here in Naskeag Harbor:
(Brooklin, Maine)