Camille Ross knew she wanted to study whales ever since she was 3. Now a University of Maine doctoral student and a researcher with Bigelow Laboratory, she does just that. Ross shared her passion…
Marine
The Department of Marine Resources’ Maine Coastal Program (MCP) and the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Municipal Planning Assistance Program (MPAP) are each seeking…
AUGUSTA — Sen. Chip Curry, D-Belfast, recently introduced LD 1139, “An Act to Improve Ferry Service Reliability by Providing Scholarships at the Maine Maritime Academy,” to the Joint Standing…
ideal solution is recycling, but it isn’t that easy
The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the shrink wrap is coming off. The boat shrink wrap, that is — low-density polyethylene plastic prized for its flexibility and ability to keep vessels…
The last boat parade you’ll ever see once the Footbridge is completed
BOOTHBAY HARBOR—On a chilly but sunny March afternoon, on the deck of Brady’s Restaurant about a dozen Mainers, some holding…
ROCKPORT — Marine Patrol Specialist Evan Whidden, who serves in Marine Patrol's Section 2 (Freeport to Bremen), received the 2023 Maine Lobstermen's Association Marine Patrol Officer of the Year…
ROCKPORT — James “Jimmy” Wotton of Friendship received the annual “Department of Marine Resources Andy Mays Award of Excellence” at the recent Fishermen’s Forum in Rockport.
Wotton, of…
ROCKPORT - The 48th Maine Fishermen’s Forum concluded over the weekend at the Samoset Resort. Capacity crowds on Friday and a Saturday snowstorm failed to deter attendees nor diminish spirits. The…
First forum in three-years
ROCKPORT — After a three-year hiatus, the Maine Fishermen’s Forum is alive and well at the Samoset Resort this weekend, March 2, 3…
In the wake of 2021, a year of historically high value for Maine’s commercially harvested marine resources, harvesters last year earned $574,049,682, an amount that is more in line with recent…
do sea walls and natural solutions really work?
Before Walt Dunlap moved in 2011 to the shores of Maquoit Bay, just south of Brunswick, he did his homework. A licensed land surveyor, Dunlap knew the steep banks sloping down to the ocean were…
Mid Coast Maine has one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, but within the beauty are hazards that can quickly ruin your day on the water. Geography, tides and weather can combine to…
After three of the slowest years in its 42-year history, the Eastport Port Authority is scrambling to find new business and continue operating in the black.
Once the second-busiest port in…
Maine State Aquarium
A recent poll shows that most Americans give up their New Year’s resolutions by early February. The Maine State Aquarium is well on its way towards keeping its resolution to open in 2023. The new…
Midcoast Conservancy announced the acquisition of a 12.5-acre parcel with 1300 feet of frontage along the West Branch Sheepscot River near China, Maine. Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) supported…
The Harraseeket River recedes slowly but steadily around Chad Coffin’s metal skiff, until the boat is beached on a partly exposed mudflat. Coffin and his daughter, Bailey Pennell, are already out…
From Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, said Jan. 26 that $33 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to support, improve, and…
CAMDEN — An old fishing vessel moored in Sherman’s Cove in Camden Harbor came perilously close to completely sinking Jan. 22, as its batteries died and bilge pump stopped functioning.
The…
ROCKPORT — For the first time in three years, the Maine Fishermen’s Forum is holding a live event at the Samoset Resort March 2-4, 2023. This event is a one-of-a-kind event created for Maine’s…
The Maine Department of Marine Resources’ (DMR) Public Health Bureau has hired Meredith White, Ph.D., to lead a department program that supports coastal municipalities and harvesters as they…
winds out of the east to coincide with highest tide of the month
MIDCOAST — Another wind/rain event in a long line of recent storms is predicted to be especially heavy-handed, but this one, due to…
U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King today announced Dec. 15 that two Maine organizations will receive a total of $22.4 million in funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
On Tuesday, Oct. 11, the Linda Moran, a 689-ton articulated pusher tug built in 2008 at Washburn & Doughty in East Boothbay, was having “a typical run,” according to Chief Mate Dave…
Investigating how a rapidly warming Arctic will affect American lobster populations and the communities that depend on them in New England and Atlantic Canada will be the focus of a University of…
As Congress looks to reauthorize the chronically-underfunded National Flood Insurance Program next week, much of Maine is operating with flood maps that are decades old, if they exist at all. And…
A group of organizations in Maine on Nov. 1 opened registration for a training program designed for fishermen to learn how to farm seafood. Maine’s vibrant working waterfront, including…
Educate a girl, change the world
CAMDEN HARBOR — The sailing vessel Maiden, first made famous in 1989 during the Whitbread Round the World race as her first all-…
VINALHAVEN – Maine Game Warden Divers recovered the body of a missing Vinalhaven man earlier today, Oct. 18.
Owen Adair, age 31 of Vinalhaven, was last seen by his family on Thursday,…
Belfast Area High School students and staff of the Belfast Marine Institute have been hard at work at the start of the school year. They have been preparing several seawater aquaria for a kelp…
‘Your voice needs to be heard, your ideas and personal impacts need to be shared’
Please see the notice below from NOAA regarding an in-person scoping session in Maine. NOAA has scheduled this scoping session because Governor Mills worked with the Secretary of Commerce to…
Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction, Seafood Watch Red Listing
Maine’s Department of Marine Resources Patrick Keliher issued the following summary of the state’s lobster industry, and the various factors bearing down on it this year.
As I…
New lease on life for the 12-1/2
ROCKLAND — Tucked away in a small workshop on Rockland Harbor’s North End, a scruffy part of town where the marine trades and industry…
“He’s back out there.”
He is a nearly four-foot shark a client caught Aug. 25 on Captain Dean Krah’s boat about a mile north of Donald E. Davey Bridge that spans the Sheepscot River from…
The rapid warming of the 20th century has reversed 900 years of cooling in the Gulf of Maine, according to a new study…
ROCKLAND—The 75th Maine Lobster Festival is underway and there is so much to see and do this year. Culturally, the Festival is covering all bases with live music all day and night, an Arts and…
Rockport Library was the place for happy faces when Children’s Librarian Charlie Gluck invited the Stewardship Education Alliance to bring its Mobile Marine Tank with sea critters for a visit. S.E.A…
number of strandings increasing
On July 20, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an Unusual Mortality Event…
Rocks gash large hole in 45-foot Sabre Yacht
CAMDEN — Just after 9 a.m. this morning, July 13, a couple aboard a 45-foot motor yacht headed out of Camden Harbor to cruise Penobscot…
new regulations to give scientists better understanding region’s fish
Regulators and fishermen hope new rules set to take effect this summer will provide a more accurate understanding of the population of some of New England’s most iconic fish, including Atlantic…
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law invests in roads, bridges, broadband infrastructure
On June 29, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced funding from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to launch the Climate Ready Coasts initiative that will…
ROCKLAND — The Maine Department of Transportation is announcing today that Maine State Ferry Service customers are now able to buy ferry tickets online. This new online ticketing system went live…
sharing particular concerns over the rise in new recreational boats in Maine
ROCKLAND — Four water-focused Maine nonprofits are announcing a social media campaign to encourage all people to take responsibility for the health and safety of Maine waters – from inland lakes…
ROCKLAND — The Maine Department of Transportation said May 26 that some Maine State Ferry Service trips between Rockland and Vinalhaven will be…
one of the primary bait sources used by Maine’s lobster fishery
NOAA Fisheries has awarded Maine $7,191,787 to provide disaster assistance for the state’s struggling Atlantic herring fishery. NOAA Fisheries will work with the Maine Department of Marine…
UNITY — The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) issued Thursday new freshwater fish consumption advisories on seven waterbodies in Maine, including one in Waldo County.…
$896 million value
AUGUSTA — On the strength of an historic year for lobster and a rebounding elver fishery, the value of Maine’s commercially harvested marine resources in 2021 reached an all time high at $890,668,…
“The air is warm but the water is dangerously cold... ALWAYS wear a lifejacket,” said Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, in a news release.
MDIFW has submitted the…
Boaters under 25 would be required to pass safety course
Most boaters under age 25 will be required to pass an education and safety course before January 2024 to operate on Maine’s lakes and rivers because of a bill passed by the state Legislature this…
President Joe Biden has approved a Major Disaster Declaration for the counties of Knox, Waldo, and York as a result of damages from flash and tributary flooding between October 30 and 31, 2021. …
ORONO — Algae such as rockweeds are a fundamental part of marine ecosystems, providing habitat and food to many other marine organisms while also providing ecosystem services. Algae…
