A bill seemingly proposed in response to a controversial salmon farm project in Frenchman Bay drew robust comment at the Statehouse on April 13. Proponents argued for a second look at the state’s aquaculture permitting process, while aquaculturists said the proposed changes could cripple a growing industry and be especially harmful to smaller businesses.
ELLSWORTH — A pair of Ellsworth neighbors have breathed new life into an Atlantic white-sided dolphin that had washed ashore in Rye, N.H. No, Captain Toby Stephenson, a member of the staff at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, and Dasha Herrrington, a junior at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, weren’t able …
ELLSWORTH — Downeast Trout Unlimited will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, April 21, at 5:30 p.m., via Zoom. A business meeting will be followed by two speakers on “New England’s Rare Arctic Charr.” Emily Bastian and Bob Mallard of the Maine chapter of the Native Fish Coalition will outline the history, biology and fishing …
“I was really worried about the market, whether we’d have any market before the season started.”
With more and more sailors like Brunner and the use of the paper charts on the decline, NOAA has started to “sunset” paper nautical charts in favor of electronic charts.
Sarah Redmond, the owner of Springtide Seaweed, has put in an application to be added to the lease of James West, who has had an experimental and commercial horizontal longline culture of marine algae at the 35-acre parcel since 2013.
Since the start of the annual calving season, researchers have documented 17 live births of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.
“People ain’t catching a whole lot right now,” said Ellsworth-based Darrell Young, the co-director of the Maine Elver Fishermen’s Association.
Former Harbormaster Raelene Pert, who’d been in the post since 2013, resigned in November, according to Stonington Selectman Evelyn Duncan.
“I am very pleased to be able to offer this traditional experience to the Class of 2021,” said MMA President William J. Brennan. “Despite having endured so much during this last year, there is also much to celebrate. Nothing could overshadow their accomplishments at MMA.”
the state Department of Marine Resources announced several local seasonal shellfish harvesting closures due to water quality issues.
Designed by William Hand and built in East Boothbay at the Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard at a $35,000 cost, the Bowdoin was first rebuilt in 1984 at the Percy & Small Shipyard in Bath.
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