ROCKLAND — The Maine Lighthouse Museum is always looking for new volunteers and docents to help with the day to day operation of the museum…
Marine
‘You Love the Ocean – It Doesn't Love You Back’
Hypothermia, drowning, sea survival, and safety at sea — a talk about maritime realities in Rockland
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The investigative team aboard the research vessel Atlantis who located El Faro's voyage data recorder Tuesday have determined it will not be possible to…
Next steps are to photo-document, retrieve VDR
WASHINGTON — A team of investigators and scientists, using remotely operated undersea search equipment, have located the voyage data recorder of the cargo ship El Faro, which sank off the…
local youngsters Build a boat in a week
ROCKLAND — The Apprenticeshop's Youth Boatbuilding Spring Break Workshop was a big success. A group of students ages 7 to 15…
largest collection of lighthouse, life-saving and U.S. Coast Guard artifacts in the nation
ROCKLAND — You are invited to join the Maine Lighthouse Museum. The museum, located at One Park Drive overlooking Rockland Harbor and…
Community hoist, new floats installed
CAMDEN — An April storm played havoc on the Camden waterfront, lifting the boardwalk off its shelf, moving it “catawampus,” said Harbor Master Steve Pixley. The same storm sent ocean swells into…
More digital high-resolution imagery of El Faro, hull and wreckage expected...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board announced Sunday it will resume searching for the vessel data recorder of the sunken U.S. flagged cargo ship, El Faro, lost off…
ROCKPORT — The Penobscot Bay YMCA 19th Annual Ned Kyle Boat Auction is scheduled for Saturday, June 11th. Since the first auction in 1998,…
The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for this evening and tonight, as an approaching gale from the southeast arrives along the coast of Maine. Residents are also cautioned…
GARDINER — The Maine Marine Patrol arrested Dana Wayne-Holmes, 61, of Gardiner, Saturday, April 2, for illegal possession of elvers.…
Keeping the catch healthy, with MAINE LOBSTERMEN’s Association
In mid-April, the Maine Lobstermen's Association, in coordination with the Maine Lobstermen's Community Alliance, will hold a series of…
The fine details of military ship modelmaking
OWLS HEAD — Sometimes Eliot Scott turns up the Grateful Dead as he patiently glues barely-visible fibers and microscopic parts to models of military vessels. Other times, he listens to the sounds…
Shotened schedule through Memorial day
ROCKLAND — The Maine Lighthouse Museum reopened Thursday, March 23. The soft opening saw a few people attending, but one staff member said there was still a lot of boxes to empty and things to be…
Build it and sail it at the Apprenticeshop:
ROCKLAND — The Apprenticeshop will offer a Youth Boatbuilding Workshop this spring over April vacation (M-F, April 18 — 22) from 9 a.m. — 3…
ROCKLAND — The Rockland CareerCenter, part of the Maine Department of Labor, and its partners offer a variety of services to help people…
Average wind speeds picked up, water temperatures increased in 2015
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.,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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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 $…
