James Simmons, a 40-year-old lobsterman from Friendship who had all of his commercial fishing licenses suspended in February for two years by the Department of…
Marine
The 53rd annual Windjammer Days Festival is just a few months away. Work behind the scenes is intensifying for the Friends of Windjammer Days.
“As the festival…
Fishermen’s Festival
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If you are interested in an exciting, in-depth boating safety course, Central Lincoln County Adult Education is offering America's Boating Course beginning Tuesday, April 28 from 6…
The Maine Department of Marine Resources will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, April 14 to solicit input that will inform the development of the Request for…
The Maine Department of Marine Resources will be relocating its headquarters on April 17 from Beech Street in Hallowell to its new location at 32 Blossom Lane in…
Rene Cloutier, a 21-year veteran of the Maine Marine Patrol, has been promoted to major.
“Major Cloutier has earned…
The Commission to Study the Effects of Coastal and Ocean Acidification on Commercially Harvested and Grown Species on Thursday presented its report…
Darling Marine Center
Timothy Miller, laboratory manager at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, has been selected to receive the 2015 Outstanding Professional Employee Award…
It seems the Damariscotta River has a wondrous blend of the perfect water temperature and right amount of nutrients to grow the world’s most renowned oyster.
The Eastern oyster, grown in the…
For the third straight year, Maine’s commercially harvested marine resources increased in overall value and generated over one-half billion dollars for the state’s…
For the third year in a row, and only the third time ever, Maine lobster fishermen landed over 120 million pounds with a record overall value of $456,935,346,…
The invisible world of marine microbes will be revealed through a photographic art exhibit at Portland Public Library’s Lewis Gallery during the month of March.…
If you are like Phil Brooks of Southport, you probably think it a fairly safe bet that the F/V Westward, still moored in Boothbay Harbor, isn’t going anywhere. Or at least not anywhere…
Darling Marine Center
University of Maine marine scientist Bob Steneck is part of an international team that has unlocked an underwater time capsule in the North Pacific that has been monitoring the climate for…
There’s more than one way to make the mountains of snow that have been accumulating over the past several weeks disappear.
We can wait for warm, sunny days, to melt it. We can wait for rain…
University of Maine researcher Ivona Cetinić is one of four Maine scientists featured in The Oceanography Society’s “Women in Oceanography: The Next Decade,” a supplement to the December issue of…
Come Tuesday, June 23, we'll be seeing visiting SchoonersAmerican Eagle, Heritage, Alert and Bowdoin, along with local schooners Eastwind, Lazy Jack sailing in Linekin…
Weather Forecast
Update: The winter storm that made its way up the coast has arrived in Lincoln County, and will likely stick around until early Wednesday morning.
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On the Waterfront
The F/V Westward, which has been moored in Boothbay Harbor since 2012, appears to be headed to Portland after its latest mishap has left it without a mooring.
Early Friday, Jan. 9,…
On Dec. 4, Dr. Beth Orcutt and Dr. Graham Shimmield left Costa Rica for a 14-hour journey into the Pacific Ocean to study the Dorado Outcrop, located near where two tectonic plates, the Cocos and…
Department of Marine Resources
Although the striped sea bass population isn't in danger, plans are on the table to keep it that way.
The Maine Department of Marine…
Maine Department of Marine Resources
The Maine Department of Marine Resources is asking smelt fishermen and anyone else interested in rebuilding this fishery to help the state take an…
Lyn and Daniel Lerner, Anna Marie and John E. Thron, and the Harold Alfond Foundation became the latest three “founders” of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences…
A meeting hosted by the Maine Department of Marine Resources to discuss an addendum to the interstate striped bass fishery management plan recently approved by the…
Russell Pinkham knows seafood. He's been selling it since the early '80s when his parents opened a wholesale clam business on River Road in Boothbay.
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Colonel Joe Fessenden, who began his career in the Maine Marine Patrol in 1975, will retire in January after 40 years enforcing Maine’s marine resources laws while building relations with the…
Maine would pursue a broad strategy to combat ocean acidification that includes greater monitoring of marine ecosystems, reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and…
The Maine Department of Marine Resources will be conducting an informational meeting to discuss an Addendum to the interstate striped bass fishery management plan…
Maine Sea Grant has announced the Oct. 1, 2014 appointment of Damian Brady as assistant director for research.
Brady, an assistant research professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the…
Another year, more dire news about New England's oldest fishery.
The Gulf of Maine cod season will look a bit differently in 2014-15…
Maine Lobstermen’s Assc. opposes challenge, says Maine got good deal
The Maine Lobstering Union has filed a notice of its intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service, seeking to roll back rules that require fishermen here to use sinking rope and to run up…
Noah Barnes: ‘When we get done, she’s going to be smoking hot!’
THOMASTON — By mid-summer 2015, Noah and Jane Barnes hope to have the historic schooner Nathaniel Bowditch back in the water, plying Maine's Penobscot Bay with guests aboard once again.…
Coast Guard, Marine Patrol boats in port this morning, helicopter grounded
On Sunday, Nov. 2, the Coast Guard officially suspended its search for two lost fishermen whose boat No Limits sunk off of Matinicus.
Coast Guard air…
After a few brief days of sea trials in Newport, Rhode Island, East Boothbay-built Comanche set sail Oct. 30 for Charleston, South Carolina, the first leg of the passage to Sydney,…
East Boothbay lobsterman Mike Lewis survived about an hour in the cold waters of the Damariscotta River near Back Narrows on Sunday, Oct. 26 after getting dragged off his boat, Victoria's…
Wednesday, Oct. 29 will mark the two-year anniversary of the Bounty’s sinking during a hurricane.
On Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 the tall ship radioed to the Coast Guard to announce the…
New England Fishery Management Council
Terry Stockwell, the Maine Department of Marine Resources external affairs director, has been reelected as chairman of the New England Fishery Management Council.…
A continuing partnership with nature will be updated in Woolwich at the end of this month, when construction is completed on the new fish ladder at the Nequasset dam.
For the past 300 years…
Pemaquid Watershed Association
For the fifth year, the Pemaquid Watershed Association monitored the water around Damariscotta's Biscay…
The Atrium Art Gallery at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn Campus presents “Secrets of the Sea,” a multi-media exhibition of work inspired by marine plants and animals. The…
Citizens asked to capture images
Along the 7,500-mile Gulf of Maine shoreline, forecasters are predicting an extreme high tide Oct. 9. Participants in the first-…
Carolyn Maunz named Oyster Poetry contest winner
DAMARISCOTTA — Another last blast of summer came through Sept. 28 for the 13th annual Pemaquid Oyster Festival on the shores of the Damariscotta River at the historic Schooner Landing Restaurant…
Hodgdon Yachts has appointed Cyril Le Sourd as European sales and marketing director, operating out of the company's new Monaco office. Le Sourd is charged with developing Hodgdon's business…
Update: Hodgdon Yachts announced Thursday that the vessel launching is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 27 at 10:45 a.m. and that the boat is planning to leave for sea trials on…
Local beachcombers are invited to join volunteers from the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center on Friday, Sept. 26 to help cleanup Pemaquid Beach. This…
As part of Maine's sixth annual Open Lighthouse Day, Saturday, Sept. 13, Burnt Island Light will be hosting tours from 9 a.m. to noon. Admission to the island and all of the buildings is free.…
During the Newport International Boat Show, Hodgdon will announce the opening of a sales and marketing office in Newport, Rhode Island. The announcement along with updates on other Hodgdon…
Thursday, September 4 was a clear, beautiful day in Boothbay Harbor — a perfect day to be out on the water. More than 50 veterans and many volunteers met at Tugboat Inn at 9:30 a.m. for a cruise…
