ELLSWORTH — A petition for review granted by Kennebec County Superior Court to Black Bear Hydro of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection’s denial of a water quality certificate to continue operation at two Union River dams continue…
ELLSWORTH — Fishermen have seen sea scallops stacked on top of one another in flush beds on the ocean floor and then vanish time and again throughout the decades of commercial fishing.
PORTLAND — The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine will hold a Feb. 3-4 meeting in Portland for U.S. and Canada fishermen, managers and researchers.
SWAN’S ISLAND — A scoping session for a proposed 20-year, 10-acre aquaculture lease site in Burnt Cove Harbor, on the north side of Mill Pond, will be held Jan. 23 at the town office at 4 p.m.
CALAIS — Washington County Community College (WCCC) will offer three free aquaculture courses this spring, as it seeks approval for an Associate of Science degree program and an aquaculture technology certificate program.
ELLSWORTH — How the state manages clammers and other wild species harvesters is changing to catch up with climate change concerns — and to reflect the growing number of species harvested and municipalities seeking to establish or continue loc…
BAR HARBOR — A parking lot that rarely flooded three decades ago, now underwater during storms. A causeway clogged with rockweed after high tide. Brackish water pouring from a tap after the ocean infiltrates a freshwater aquifer.
ELLSWORTH — A six-year pause in federal lobstering rules that threatened to decimate Maine’s commercial lobster industry is a done deal after Governor Janet Mills and the Maine congressional delegation successfully lobbied to include legislation that pushed back the new rules to Dec. 31, 202…
ELLSWORTH — The $1.7 trillion federal omnibus appropriations bill unveiled Tuesday includes a provision championed by Maine’s congressional delegation to pause any new regulations of the lobster fishery for six years.
JONESPORT — Protect Downeast has announced the group will appeal a Nov. 29 Jonesport Planning Board vote to approve the Kingfish Maine aquaculture project.
JONESPORT — The Jonesport Planning Board has finalized Kingfish Maine’s building permit application, the final step required for pre-construction design and engineering for the company’s recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility, Kingfi…
AUGUSTA — The 2022-23 harvest season of the lucrative sea scallop — among Maine’s and the nation’s top-selling seafoods — has kicked off in Zone 2.
AUGUSTA — Maine’s governor and congressional delegation released a joint statement Sunday expressing relief that a judge has delayed for two years the implementation of lobster gear restrictions designed to protect endangered whales.
ELLSWORTH — With the recent release of 300 mature Atlantic salmon into the upper reaches of the East Branch of the Penobscot River, the state of Maine has taken another step forward in its effort to restore the critically endangered species.
LAMOINE — Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology and director of the marine field station at the University of Maine at Machias, is conducting research all along Maine’s coast to see how clams spawn in an environment free of predators.
While hatchery spawned fish ensure a consistent supply of smolts, future plans call for salmon smolts captured in the wild to be used to stock the aquaculture pens.
