AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Transportation sent a Notice of Intent to Award an $8.8 million contract for the construction of a new Maine State Ferry Service vessel to East Boothbay boatbuilder…
Marine
Washburn and Doughty in East Boothbay to get the contract
From Augusta
AUGUSTA – The Maine House unanimously passed a resolution sponsored by Rep. Mick Devin, D-Newcastle, asking President Trump to exclude Maine from any future…
HARRINGTON – The body of 62-year old Delbert Caler of Harrington was discovered this morning by a local fisherman working with Maine Marine Patrol to locate the shellfish harvester, missing since…
Yachting Solutions and Rockland City Council meet Feb. 14
ROCKLAND – As the Midcoast-based boating company Yachting Solutions presents plans for a harbor redesign and marina expansion Feb. 14 at the Rockland City Hall, a citizens group called Sensible…
SOUTH THOMASTON — After 27 years as president of the Maine Lobstermen's Association (MLA), the state's oldest fishermen's organization, lobsterman David Cousens of South Thomaston will step down…
Midwinter in Maine, on the water
FRIENDSHIP — Videographer Terry Boivin went out with his drone and camera before dawn on Monday Jan. 29, with the lobster/tuna boat Victorinox, a Mussel Ridge 48 built by Hutchinson…
Yachting Solutions aims to expand marina next winter
ROCKLAND – As a private project aimed at redesigning part of Rockland Harbor moves through its conceptual stage, mooring owners voiced opinions and concerns Tuesday, Jan. 30, during a special City…
Upon completion, expected to supply 8 percent of annual U.S. salmon consumption
BELFAST —A large group gathered at the Hutchinson Center Tuesday morning to hear Governor Paul LePage announce a major economic development that is targeting Belfast. A Norwegian…
State and local authorities are monitoring a World War II-era minesweeper for possible fuel leakage. The 66-foot wooden boat sank at its mooring in Wiscasset harbor during a blizzard Jan. 4.…
In the first lottery since 2013, the Maine Department of Marine Resources has awarded the right to apply for a coveted elver license to 11 Mainers, including two who fish on Penobscot Bay.
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The Advanced Structures and Composites Center presented the Maine Aqua Ventus project to area fishermen and other residents in a forum at the Boothbay Fire Station Jan. 18.
The…
Must be netted so eiders stay safe
ISLESBORO — The Maine Dept. of Marine Resource has granted an experimental aquaculture lease in waters northeast of Flat Island on Islesboro for the cultivation of blue mussels. DMR granted the…
Gordon ‘Skip’ Connell: ‘I have 800 traps and it's hard to keep them in good condition’
SPRUCE HEAD — Gordon “Skip” Connell, 59, was one of two people who’d found he’d drawn the lucky ticket for the 2017 Lobster Trap Tree Raffle this year. Out of 255 tickets sold, the lucky winners…
Andy Tyska, president of Rhode Island-based Bristol Marine, has announced the acquisition of Boothbay Harbor Shipyard. Located at the head of Boothbay Harbor, the shipyard joins Bristol Marine’s…
Body is being identified now
UPDATE, ST. GEORGE — The body of Paul Benner, of Thomaston, was recovered a little before noon today in Long Cove near Tenants Harbor after a diver located him in the water.
Maine State…
High noon came and went Jan. 4, and with higher than average tides, the ocean left its mark on the Midcoast, along with blizzard conditions. The one bright spot in the whole day has been the…
The Maine Department of Marine Resources has up to $3,450 to pay a shrimp trawler to collect shrimp samples this winter in the Midcoast area, starting about January 29, 2018. The purpose is to…
Blames company, U.S. Bureau of Shipping, and Coast Guard itself
WASHINGTON -- The Coast Guard today released the Final Action Memo regarding the loss of the S.S. El Faro and its 33 crewmembers during a 2015 hurricane near Crooked Island, Bahamas.…
Maine Technology Institute, Alliance for Maine’s Marine Economy awards $1.7 million
A Port Clyde seaweed venture is among the eight recipients of grants make through the Maine Technology Institute. In partnership with the Alliance for Maine's Marine Economy, the institute…
BRUNSWICK —The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) announced the Maine Coast Fishermen's Association as one of seven recipients to receive a grant through the Fisheries Innovation Fund.…
Proposals Due February 1, 2018
ARLINGTON, VA — The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is requesting proposals to develop potential marine aquaculture projects in the U.S. Atlantic coast region. NOAA Fisheries, through…
Warmer climate means warmer water: inhospitable to shrimp
In response to the depleted condition of the northern shrimp resource, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Northern Shrimp Section extended the moratorium on commercial fishing for…
Maine's 2017-2018 scallop season gets underway December 1 and the season for harvesters will look much like last year's.
As with the 2016-17 season, harvesters in Zones 1 and 2, which…
OWLS HEAD – Author Susan St. John has been an instructor for Outward Bound for 30 years. Afrter meeting and knowing so many people associated with Hurricane Island she decided nine years ago to…
Changes began in 2010, whales present along much of East Coast year-round
A new study confirms what marine mammal researchers have suspected for a while: Right Whales use nearly the entire eastern seaboard during the winter, and they move around a lot more than was…
Fifth graders from Captain Albert Stevens School, in Belfast, are working on a year-long project involving the release of salmon into the Wescott Stream through the Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition…
ROCKPORT — Photographer Peter Ralston decided to spend Sunday night, Oct. 29, on Raven, his 37-foot vessel that has the sturdy composition of a lobster boat combined with comfort. …
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences announced today that its board of trustees has appointed Deborah Bronk to be its next president and CEO. She will assume her new role at the nonprofit marine…
ST. GEORGE — On Tuesday, October 17, at 11 a.m., residents of the town of St. George, which includes the villages of Tenants Harbor and Port Clyde, submitted a petition with more than 300…
Fishermen's Association stands with local community opposition of the Maine Aqua Ventus wind project
At its Annual Meeting held on October 10, 2017, the Maine Coast Fishermen's Association's Board of Directors unanimously passed a resolution expressing its opposition to the Maine Aqua Ventus…
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the University of New England was awarded a three-year, nationally competitive research grant for $1,321,039 from DOE’s Advanced…
In business
Early last spring, on May 4, crews at Rockport Marine gently pulled a new 91-foot cold-molded hull from the shed and lowered it into Rockport Harbor. Brad and Adam Scott, two brothers who own Two…
ROCKLAND – Advocates of a fee increase for large vessels visiting Rockland Harbor provided an element of substance to an argument that’s been in play for several months. Some business advocates,…
From Down East
The Coast Guard rescued two fishermen off Nash Island, Down East Maine, Thursday, after their lobster boat became disabled when a swell pushed the vessel onto a rock causing them to swim to shore…
WASHINGTON -- The Coast Guard will release the S.S. El Faro Marine Board of…
5:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 2
ROCKLAND – More than 12,500 passengers and ship employees will visit Rockland Harbor between September 13 and October 20 of this year. The cruise ships bringing them pay the city $8 per passenger…
Odds of trapping a white lobster is 1 in 100 million
THOMASTON – It is the rarest of rare lobsters, and the chances of catching one are 1 in 100 million, but that's what Desiree Smith, of Rockland, did. She found in his traps an albino/white lobster…
ORONO — Increasing environmental uncertainty coupled with rapidly changing market conditions in the Gulf of Maine raise important questions about the ability of Maine's commercial fishermen to…
AUGUSTA — Three days after implementing a recall of mussels because of Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning, the Maine Department of Marine Resources, working with dealers, has recovered 98 percent of the…
Mussels harvested in Frenchman Bay subject to recall
MAINE - The Maine Department of Marine Resources is in the process of recalling mussels harvested from Frenchman Bay due to elevated levels of domoic acid, the biotoxin that causes Amnesic…
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board plans to meet Dec. 12, 2017, in Washington to determine the probable cause of the October 2015 sinking of the cargo ship El Faro in the…
Hurricane Irma
ROCKLAND – Rockland Harbor Master Matt Ripley heads to Florida, Tuesday, Sept. 12, to lend assistance in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Through his own desire, he coordinated the trip, knowing most…
ST. GEORGE — Marshall Point Lighthouse and Museum is preparing to build a 18' x 25' replica of the original Keeper's Barn and Workshop, which stood behind the keeper's house for over 74 years. The…
ROCKPORT — The Penobscot Bay YMCA is seeking donations for its 2018 annual Boat Auction scheduled for the second Saturday in June. Since the first auction in 1998, this major fundraising event…
Organizers are looking for a few good teams to have a great time building a wonderful, safe, durable sailing / rowing dinghy this weekend at the Camden Windjammer Festival.
Interested…
CAMDEN—Set against the backdrop of America's largest fleet of historic schooners, the members of the Maine Windjammer Association (MWA) will present their Lifetime Appreciation Award to Captain…
On Thursday, Aug. 31, the historic schooner When and If will sail into Boothbay Harbor with owner-captain Seth Salzmann at the helm.
The 65-foot John Alden yacht is coming to the…
Up the Kennebec River in replica bateau, for adventure and the story
On September 25, 2017, I’m going to make a huge mistake. I’ve known it for some time now even though I have been amply warned by both my wife and history itself. Only a fool — or someone obsessed…
BELFAST — There was a gray, cool start to the 10th annual Belfast Harbor Fest’s weekend activities,…
BELFAST — Though the 10th annual Harbor Fest officially began the evening of Aug. 18, the full festivities didn’t start until the next morning, when a variety of vendors took over Steamboat…
