AUGUSTA — The state submitted an application to the federal government Oct. 1 to lease 15.2 square miles in the Gulf of Maine for the nation’s first floating offshore wind research array. The site is about 30 miles from Cape Small in Sagadahoc County, 45 miles from Portland and 23 miles from Monhegan, according to …
After years of absence, the CAT ferry is expected to come back to Bar Harbor in the spring of 2022.
TRENTON — The former CEO of Lobster 207 has asked a judge to vacate a $1 million arbitration award to his former employer, arguing that he was not paid his proper wages by the company before his firing and the business did not maintain a complete personnel file for him showing any history of the …
With the help of 13 students in Mickie Flore’s seventh-grade science class at Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary School, researchers continued their ongoing quest to learn more about where baby lobsters settle in the Gulf of Maine.
The state Department of Environmental Protection will hold a three-hour public meeting strictly online late in October to hear comments and concerns about American Aquafarms’ permit applications to discharge two billion gallons of circulated water daily from the Norwegian-backed company’s two 15-pen sites.
Last week, Maine filed to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit over the rules to protect the endangered whales. On Sept. 27, the state was granted intervenor status, allowing officials to submit official testimony in the case.
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills asked federal officials to reduce the economic harm that will result from parts of the new rules for the lobster fishery that are being put in place to help protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale. “It is entirely unfair that Maine lobstermen continue to be the primary target of …
WINTER HARBOR — The public is invited to join Schoodic Institute scientists in the intertidal zone to collect data about rockweed while exploring the beauty of the rocky coast between the tides. Rockweed (Ascophyllum nodosum) is the dominant algae or seaweed along most of Maine’s rocky shoreline and provides habitat for animals living in and …
PETIT MANAN — This past year was a particularly bad one for the young Atlantic puffins that nest on Maine’s coastal islands. For the last 17 years, an average of 65 percent of puffin chicks would survive the season and leave the state’s seabird colonies. Those figures plummeted in 2021, according to experts. This season, …
AUGUSTA — Maine won’t pursue a lawsuit against federal regulators over the new lobster fishery rules aimed at helping the endangered North Atlantic right whale, but state officials are considering other legal avenues. In a meeting with lawmakers last week, Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher said he was advised that the state didn’t …
The Planning Board will hold a public hearing Tuesday, Oct. 19, to hear comments for or against a moratorium ordinance that would prohibit large-scale aquaculture development in town from consideration for six months.
“This project will enable Gouldsboro to take actions to sustain existing shore access agreements,” the grant reads. “It will also create a plan for coastal infrastructure investments over the next 20 to 30 years that will reduce vulnerability to sea-level rise, storm surges and runoff from intense storms.”
