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"Undoubtedly, Customs will demand more upgrades next year, and the year after, until it gets everything it wants; in 2014, the agency asked for improvements costing almost $4.7 million..."

Passengers interested in traveling to the USA this summer can take advantage of discounts for booking tickets early on the high-speed CAT ferry between Maine and Nova Scotia.

Project cost ballons from $17 to $30 million
$5.6 million yearly rate increase proposed

The federal wildlife service estimates 100,000 salmon returned to the Penobscot River each year in the 19th century, and fewer than 750 returned to spawn in Maine rivers last year.

After two failed years of service between Portland, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia - and $40 million in subsidies from the Nova Scotia government - the Nova Star ferry has a new job moving people across the Strait of Gibraltar.

Reasons for record catches not understood

The state’s top economic development official says Gov. Paul LePage won’t be asking the Maine Legislature to use taxpayer money to help fund the ferry service between Portland and Nova Scotia, countering assumptions widely held in Nova Scotia that LePage plans to submit a bill to do just that.