BROOKSVILLE — A project is underway this summer to help restore fish passage to the Bagaduce River. Construction vehicles will be onsite at the Mill Pond on Coastal Road in Brooksville. “This project will take place on the small property owned by Maine Coast Heritage Trust at a former mill site at the head of …
FRANKLIN — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection, in conjunction with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has awarded the Georges Pond Association a $45,960 federal grant to reduce pollution in the Georges Pond watershed. The estimated project cost is $79,066, with $33,106 promised from project partners coupled with the federal grant. The pond association has …
CASTINE — The COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on the Castine Classic Yacht Race, reducing the fleet for the 21st annual edition of the event to just 13 yachts, down from 36 last year, according to race chairman David Bicks. Racing last Thursday along a 19.6-nautical mile course down Penobscot Bay to Camden, the fleet …
BROOKLIN — The Eggemoggin Reach Regatta fleet is always a mixture of old boats and new, with the common denominator being that all of them are of wooden construction. While the 66-boat fleet for last Saturday’s race included plenty of elegant antiques — Desperate Lark, Bob Vaughn’s Herreshoff Bar Harbor 30 launched in 1903, was …
ELLSWORTH — Last month, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, violated federal environmental protection laws several years ago when a “biological opinion” it issued failed to give adequate consideration to the risk the lobster fishery posed to endangered right …
CASTINE – The Castine Classic Yacht Race has been part of competitive sailing on Penobscot Bay since at least 1999 and so it will be this year too, though the COVID-19 pandemic has already had an impact on the event. “We’re running the race as ever,” event chairman David Bicks said Monday morning, “but there …
JONESPORT – Kingfish Maine, the company that wants to build a technologically advanced, land-based fish farm on the shore of Chandler Bay, held an appropriately technologically advanced public meeting in the Jonesport firehouse last Tuesday to begin the process of applying to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection for a Maine Pollutant Discharge Elimination System …
BLUE HILL — An unexpected visitor spiced up the Sunday scene in East Blue Hill when the 453-foot yacht Rising Sun dropped anchor off the mouth of McHeard Cove and the Curtis Cove Beach after a day of cruising the waters around Mount Desert Island and Blue Hill Bay. With a 62-foot beam and drawing …
CASTINE — Maine Maritime Academy’s training ship, State of Maine, will return to Castine mid-afternoon on Friday, July 31, to conclude a month-long training exercise, MMA President William Brennan announced this week. The ship is returning from Searsport, where it has been anchored since departing its homeport July 10. The ship relocated after some Castine …
ROCKLAND — By late July, the Maine schooner fleet is usually running all out, with a dozen or so boats busy carrying passengers on sailing adventures through Penobscot Bay and farther east from homeports in Camden, Rockport and Rockland. The season usually gets under way in June, but the coronavirus pandemic has changed all that. …
ELLSWORTH — Scientists at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have discovered that microplastic pollution of the ocean is having an impact on Maine lobsters. In a study published last month, a team of researchers reported their findings that microplastic fiber pollution in the ocean affects larval lobsters at each stage of their development. According …
CASTINE — The coronavirus pandemic has claimed another victim, though fortunately not an individual. Last Friday, Maine Maritime Academy President William J. Brennan announced that the MMA Mariners would not compete in any intercollegiate athletics during the fall 2020 semester. Among the teams whose seasons will be canceled is the academy’s co-ed sailing team. “This …
