Fog bells have always been an essential navigational aid for seafarers. For 136 years, a fog…
Marine
CAMDEN — A month ago, just as prep work for the boating season was underway and divers were under water inspecting moorings, a 30-foot-sailboat was discovered on the floor of Camden Harbor, in…
“There’s always the need for more counters, especially in the northern part of the state”
Early Saturday morning in mid July, on the shores of hundreds of Maine lakes, people are getting coffee and tea, studying maps, prepping their boats, dusting off binoculars, and meeting up with…
Maine’s Governor Janet Mills and the Department of Marine Resources are praising a June 16 federal appeals court decision ordering the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)” to go back to the…
The Maine Lobstermen’s Association issued a statement June 16 on a ruling in its favor by the …
From Augusta and Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Susan Collins and Representative Jared Golden along with Senator Angus King,…
From Augusta
On Wednesday, Gov. Janet Mills held a ceremonial bill signing for …
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences announced a $30 million expansion to its East Boothbay laboratory today…
History came alive in Boothbay Harbor June 6. A small crowd gathered at the docks on a crisp, cloudy afternoon to wish the classic schooner Bowdoin and its crew a safe voyage. The ship…
It’s mid-May on Sprucehead Island, and Bob Baines and crew are wrapping up their 2023 kelp harvest. Baines farms four acres near the Lower Gangway Ledge, 13,000 feet of line for a haul of about 50…
From $850 to $6,500 per season
ROCKPORT — The owners of Skyhook Crane and Rigging LLC, Shane Laprade and Nathan Pickering, are questioning the Town of Rockport about a…
Be it a labor of love or the know-how that has been passed down over generations, it takes an accomplished group of shipwrights and boat builders with a unique set of skills to restore the wooden…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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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…
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…
number of strandings increasing
On July 20, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an Unusual Mortality Event…
