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   David Ireland is a Christian author, paralegal, journalist and filmmaker.

  David is a Maine author who has spent the past four years conducting video interviews of every-day Americans. He has met over one thousand people and asked them if they felt America’s best days are behind her. David presented excerpts of several videos and discussed the folks he met and their reactions to the question. The common thread of the presentation was the importance of preserving our freedoms as well as our own responsibility to preserve them. 

A Maine native, he resides in central Maine but travels the USA to gather stories from everyday Americans who "make America work" as Rush Limbaugh would say. 

  Lincoln County Republican Committee Meeting 

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Guest Speaker

Dustin Delano - Dustin is a former Vice President of the Maine Lobster Association and currently serves as the Chief Operations Officer of the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA) https://www.nefishermen.org/

NEFSA is a non profit organization that seeks to protect and preserve the New England Fishing Industry by promoting sustainable practices, fighting regulatory over-reach and by educating the public about resource management and conservation.

Dustin spoke about the crippling effect of changing lobster gauge sizing to Maine lobstermen and various other challenges facing Maine fishermen.

We’ve often heard from so called “environmentalists” that lobster catches are down due to climate change however Dustin informed us that last year's catch totaled over 100 million pounds. For decades the typical catch was 20 to 30 million pounds. Dustin further explained the devastating effects that new gauge limits will have on the harvesting of chick lobsters which are preferred by restaurants, the cruise ship industry and the European market. Dustin closed by explaining the impact of the Chevron deference and Corner-post cases to the fishing industry and the destruction that is being caused by offshore wind power in New England.