Debate continues over threat posed by pike
Lou Horvath sat through two lengthy PowerPoint presentations and a number of questions Wednesday night before finally turning to the man seated behind him and asking a simple question.
“Who are you?” Horvath asked gruffly, though he had been told before the meeting who the man was.
Many of the others who attended the monthly meeting of the Veazie Salmon Club also knew the man’s identity.
And though moderator Ray “Bucky” Owen quickly ended Horvath’s terse interaction with the visitor, the brief exchange seemed inevitable, considering the makeup of the audience and the presence of a man many in that crowd had read about.
The man was Paul Johnson, a retired state fisheries biologist whose recent stance and frequent public statements have drawn the ire of many conservationists who have enthusiastically supported the Penobscot River Restoration Project.read more….
