Warmer surface temperatures, increased wind speeds, and larger temperature differences among water masses are affecting the base of the food chain in ocean waters off the Northeastern U.S.,…
Marine
Average wind speeds picked up, water temperatures increased in 2015
ROCKLAND — Rockland harbor sloop captain Daniel Bennett will be on WRFR and at an Old School dinner symposium Friday, April 1. The live…
Maine Lobstermen Association
KENNEBUNK — On March 7, Maine Lobstermen Association members and staff boarded a bus to make the two-hour trip south to Seafood Expo…
On March 7, Maine Lobstermen Association members and staff boarded a bus to make the two-hour trip south to Seafood Expo Northeast taking…
ROCKLAND — This Friday, March 25, Taylor Allen, President of Rockport Marine, will participate in a broadcast interview from 4 to 5 p.m. on…
ROCKPORT — The Maine Lobstermen's Association (MLA) distributed more than 100 nylon mesh bags designed to keep trash from entering the Gulf…
2016 elver season starts on March 22
AUGUSTA — A recently passed bill will improve Maine elver harvesters' chances of landing all of the state's 9,688 pounds of quota. The…
AUGUSTA — A new approach to scallop monitoring in Maine state waters has led to changes in scallop abundance estimates that will result in…
Lobster responsible for 81 percent, then clams
AUGUSTA – Maine's commercially harvested marine resources topped $600 million in overall value in 2015, according to preliminary data from…
2016 marks c41st year
ROCKPORT — With the 41st Fisherman's Forum well underway at the Samoset Resort; the parking lot filled with cars and trucks with license plates from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Delaware and…
‘Climate is what you expect, Weather is what you get’
ROCKPORT — Julie Keene is harbor master for the town of Lubec. “I’m an elver fisherman,” she said. ”Last year, we got nothing. I didn’t catch my quota. We’re going to have a good year for eels,…
Former Coast Guard naval engineer
ROCKLAND — City Manager James Chaousis announced Thursday afternoon, March 3, that Rockland’s new harbor master is Matthew Ripley. A former Coast Guard naval engineer, Ripley grew up in St. George…
March 3-5, Samoset Resort, Rockport
ROCKPORT — On Thursday, March 3, the Maine Fishermen's Forum will host a fishermen-led salty discussion around climate change in fisheries…
CMP installs new cable to Island
AUGUSTA — Homes and businesses on Islesboro will have more reliable electric service, now that Central Maine Power, a subsidiary of…
Measure gets unanimous vote from Marine Resources Committee
AUGUSTA — The Legislature's Marine Resources Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to advance legislation seeking to improve the efficiency…
ROCKLAND — This presentation is a two-part series offered Sunday, March 6, at 3 p.m. and Sunday, March 20, at 1 p.m. This is an…
Watch the hearing live via streaming online...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 17) — Day two of the U.S. Coast Guard’s public Marine Board of Investigation hearing into the loss of the steam ship El Faro, and its 33 crew members, is underway…
A bill to improve the state’s ferry service for the hundreds of…
Although at first glance it’s hard to imagine, a Maine lobster is a vulnerable thing. …
WASHINGTON. D.C. – The National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday that it would launch a second expedition to search for evidence in its investigation of the loss of the cargo ship…
Maine shrimp lovers are hoping for the best this winter. With the shrimp population in decline over the past few years, and the Gulf of Maine shrimp fishery being closed…
Tim Simmons of Boothbay just returned from a week in Sweden. As interesting and exciting as he said it was, it wasn't a vacation. He was invited to go by his friend, crustacean scientist Matz…
Bug Catcha helps pull two men to safety
At approximately 10 a.m. today, Jan. 28, the U.S. Coast Guard received a distress call from the fishing vessel Miss Lynne stating the engine compartment was on fire and the two people…
U.S. Coast Guard to hold Marine Board of Investigation hearing Feb. 16-26
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The families of 10 El Faro crew members, killed when the container ship sank Oct. 1, 2015, off the Bahamian coast after running into Hurricane Joaquin, have reached a…
Hear stories about being at sea, Arctic and Antarctic
BELFAST —…
Department of Marine Resources
AUGUSTA —…
Climate model shows faster warming and changing ocean circulation
A new study by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration researchers suggests future warming of ocean waters off the…
ROCKLAND — Rockland City Manager James Chaousis said Jan. 8 that Harbor Master Ed Glaser has been terminated from employment…
The Harold Alfond Foundation Tuesday announced a $3.1 million award to Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences for construction of a 32-bed student and visiting…
Through Jan. 4, operators of local fishing vessels can apply to harvest a limited number of shrimp, and help scientists learn about the Gulf of Maine’s shrimp population.
It has become so…
Free lobsters to anyone in need
THOMASTON - Noah Ames lobsters out of Matinicus. Last year on this date, Noah parked his truck, filled with Maine lobsters, at Midcoast Marine Supply at 153 New County Road in Thomaston and handed…
With recent funding from the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund, the Maine Department of Marine Resources has taken another step forward in its ability to lead whale disentanglement efforts.
The $…
SOUTH PORTLAND — A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew in…
Maine Lighthouse Museum and Friends of Flying Santa...
ROCKLAND — It’s a tradition that began on Dec. 25, 1929, when Capt. William Wincapaw of Friendship loaded his plane with a dozen packages containing newspapers, magazines, coffee, candy and other…
Soon, a decision will be formed as to whether or not to open the Gulf of Maine’s shrimp fishery.
The decision to open or…
University of Maine at Orono
ORONO, Maine — When Samuel Belknap, Ph.D. anthropology and environmental policy student at the University of Maine, heard an increasing…
Winner gets passage for two on any 2016 season trip
ROCKLAND — What does a captain do, when the schooner he’s been restoring for more than a year needs an anchor windlass, standing rigging and deck hardware to finally return to active to service as…
Department of Marine Resources
AUGUSTA – Rep. Pinny Beebe-Center, D-Rockland, is appealing the Legislative Council’s rejection of her bill to give the commissioner of the…
Vessel upright, stern buried in approximately 30 feet of sediment
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Updated Nov. 3) The National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday afternoon said that searches by a U.S. Navy remote…
Rockland Community Sailors
Rockland Community Sailors take first place at the Becton Cup women's State Championship regatta in Castine last week. …
Near Jameson Point
The Coast Guard is responding to the grounding of a vessel in…
Imagine having a job in Maine, where your office is a boat and you are your own boss. And you don’t have to haul lobsters. …
The breezes continue Thursday afternoon, albeit much milder than the winds that blew through the Midcoast overnight Wednesday and into Thursday morning, and only pockets of customers in Waldo and…
Clamming has been good in Wiscasset this year, very good.
A few years ago, one or one and a half bushels would have been a digger’s likely take from a tide, Wiscasset Shellfish Committee…
Bring in your bird feeders, trash cans, kids’ toys
GRAY — The National Weather Service in Gray has issued a gale warning for the coast, from Stonington to Port Clyde, out 25 nautical miles into Penobscot Bay. The gale warning is in effect from 8 p…
GULF OF MEXICO — A Hope family, and the community they are a big part of, are all in mourning with news that the man killed Tuesday on a drilling ship in the Gulf of Mexico was 34-year-old Sam…
National Transportation Safety Board...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board issued an update Tuesday into its continuing investigation of the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro in the Atlantic Ocean near…
ROCKLAND — If you have a lobster buoy hanging around your dooryard, the organizers of the annual lobster trap tree that is set up ahead of the Rockland’s Festival of Lights celebration could use a…
