Rock Alley
President of the Maine Lobstering Union and Protect Maine’s Fishing Heritage Foundation
By Robert Cook
In many ways, Rock Alley is a typical Maine lobsterman whose family has pulled traps in the waters off Jonesport and Beals Island for five generations. But Rock also describes himself as a fiercely independent person who will be there for his lobster industry whenever it is threatened.
As the president of the Maine Lobstering Union and the Protect Maine’s Fishing Heritage Foundation, Rock, 63, spends almost as much time fishing as he does when he advocates for his fellow lobstermen and lobsterwomen in Augusta. “I’m not afraid to stand up to people.”