Midcoast Maine has one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, but within the beauty are hazards that can quickly ruin your…
Marine
Press release
Governor Janet Mills Tuesday slammed Seafood Watch’s designation of lobster caught in the Gulf of Maine as on the “red list” of…
Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 2-5 member, Ted Chatham, was awarded the Coast Guard Auxiliary Commendation Medal for Outstanding Achievement.
The award was presented by RADM John W. Mauger…
Twenty-five students from 15 universities nationwide presented their summer marine research at the sixth annual Science for Economic Impact and Application (SEA) …
Nearly 150 people gathered at Jewell Lodge on the Wavus Camp grounds on Tuesday, Aug. 23, to hear a report on the health of Damariscotta Lake. Midcoast Conservancy staff…
“He’s back out there.”
He is a nearly four-foot shark a client caught Aug. 25 on Captain Dean Krah’s boat about a mile north of Donald E. Davey Bridge that spans the Sheepscot River from…
Members of the Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation (BRMF) recently accepted a new sign from Laura Graham, Senior Planner from the Land for Maine’s Future (LMF) Program. This sign represents three…
Maine’s First Ship brings back the popular community event that celebrates local food: a Full Moon Dinner will be held at 6 p.m. in the Bath Freight Shed on Saturday, Sept. 10. This farm-to-table…
Midcoast Maine has one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, but that beauty can hide hazards that can quickly ruin your day on the…
The rapid warming of the 20th century has reversed 900 years of cooling in the Gulf of Maine, according to a new…
Maine summer camps. There are 125 of them according to MaineSummerCamps.org. You can scour the listings, but there is only one summer camp on an island in the ocean – Burnt Island, part of…
Ryan Smith, 39, was appointed officer-in-charge of USCG Boothbay Harbor …
My husband Steve and I just returned home in Stockbridge, Vermont from our time on Burnt Island as volunteer Keepers in July.
What a wonderful experience meeting new community members from…
Former Lighthouse Keeper Randy Griffing, and his wife Anna, have returned to Burnt Island to share their life experiences while living here as a young couple, from 1974-1977.
When you see…
The Maine Coastal Program, a Division of the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR), has opened registration for the annual Coastal Cleanup. The Coastal Cleanup is a volunteer-driven…
The name of Nat Wilson comes to mind if you are a fan of honorable and skilled sailmakers throughout the world.
Right in our own back yard do we have the pleasure of meeting a humble,…
Interested community members are invited to join researchers and local students at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center for a conversation about emerging results of an ongoing community…
number of strandings increasing
On July 20, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an Unusual Mortality Event…
On Friday, July 15 the University of Maine Darling Marine Center will kick off its seminar series with Dr. Heather Leslie who will present on the challenges and opportunities of engaged research.…
Coast Guard Cutter Finback (WPB 87314), stationed in Portland since August 2021, visited Carousel Marine in Boothbay Harbor to refuel in late June.
According to the Homeland…
The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust's (KELT) most popular summertime event is coming up on Wednesday, July 6 from 10 a.m. to noon at…
This summer high school students, including rising freshmen and recent graduates, have an opportunity to learn about marine ecology while getting muddy in the Damariscotta River estuary. The…
Since the first Fishin’ For Fashion in 2014 at the former Rocktide Inn, locals and visitors alike have had a passion for fashion – make that nautical fashion!
After a two-year absence from…
Boothbay Harbor Lobster Boat Races
Andrew Taylor of Southport, owner of Blue Eyed Girl, defended his title as the Fastest Working Lobster Boat, at the Charles Begin Memorial Lobster Boat…
After a long off-season with boats “on the hard,” getting all the items you took off the boat for the winter back aboard and checked out can seem a lot like “work.” When you add that feeling of “…
The Boothbay Harbor Coast Guard Auxiliary has announced the following dates and times of area Vessel Safety Checks.
Saturday, June 18: 1-4:30 p.m., Hodgdon Yacht Services, Southport
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Several Coastal Rivers volunteers gathered at Pemaquid Beach recently for a training with the Maine Healthy Beaches Program. This training will prepare them to take weekly water samples at three…
Coastal Rivers is hosting a walk to the salt marsh at Salt Bay Farm in Damariscotta from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Friday, June 3 to look for spawning horseshoe crabs.
Horseshoe crabs have been…
Sarah Risley, a University of Maine graduate student based at the Darling Marine Center, will lead a team of undergraduate and high school students to study the shellfish species living at several…
Women on the Working Waterfront
On the anniversary of the 60th year celebrating Windjammers Days and maritime history, we pay homage to our founder, Captain Marion Dash for her contribution as a female role model in our…
Women on the Working Waterfront
On the anniversary of the 60th year celebrating Windjammers Days and maritime history, we pay homage to our founder, Captain Marion Dash for her contribution as a female role model in our…
Women on the Working Waterfront
On the anniversary of the 60th year celebrating Windjammers Days and maritime history, we pay homage to our founder, Captain Marion Dash for her contribution as a female role model in our…
$896 million value
AUGUSTA — On the strength of an historic year for lobster and a rebounding elver fishery, the value of Maine’s commercially harvested marine resources in 2021 reached an all time high at $890,668,…
Women on the Waterfront
On the anniversary of the 60th year celebrating Windjammers Days and maritime history, we pay homage to our founder, Captain Marion Dash for her contribution as a female role model in our…
Women on the Waterfront
On the anniversary of the 60th year celebrating Windjammers Days and maritime history, we pay homage…
Coast Guard Auxiliary
Mid Coast Maine has one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, but within the beauty are hazards that can quickly ruin…
Women on the Waterfront
On the anniversary of the 60th year celebrating Windjammers Days and maritime history, we pay homage to our founder, Captain Marion Dash for her contribution as a female role model in our…
Women on the Working Waterfront
On the anniversary of the 60th year celebrating Windjammers Days and maritime history, we pay homage to our founder, Captain Marion Dash for her contribution as a female role model in our…
For the oyster lover who doesn’t mind getting a little muddy, cold, and damp, Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust is now accepting applicants to its two-year Oyster Gardening program. Participants…
Women of the Working Waterfront
On the anniversary of the 60th year celebrating Windjammers Days and maritime history, we pay homage to our founder, Captain Marion Dash for her contribution as a…
Celebrating Women on the Working Waterfront
Historically, maritime careers were considered for men only. Back in the day, a woman was more likely to be seen as the figurehead carved on the bowsprit of a boat rather than as a deckhand or…
The Maine Aquaculture Association (MAA) has released the first of its kind…
AUGUSTA – The Legislature’s Marine Resources Committee voted on Tuesday to advance a bill by Rep. Holly Stover, D-Boothbay, aimed at supporting Maine’s lobster fishing industry following recent…
Discover the important link between fish and the temperature of their stream habitats! The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) is excited to…
Atlantic Captain's Academy will be conducting a Coast Guard approved captain's course at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath starting on Wednesday evening, Feb. 23 at 6 p.m. Classes will meet for…
Hodgdon Tenders, the superyacht tender division of Hodgdon Yachts, is proud to announce that T/T Boardwalk, an 8.5 meter (27’11”) limousine tender built by Hodgdon Tenders and designed by…
Darling Marine Center hosts 25 to 30 undergraduate researchers on the Walpole campus each summer. Student researchers work together with UMaine faculty and other DMC-based researchers on projects…
The Boothbay Harbor Appeals Board remanded Boothbay Harbor Waterfront Preservation’s (BHWP) site plan back to the planning board for reconsideration Jan. 13. …
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Lobster Management Board has approved for public comment Draft Addendum XXIX. The Draft Addendum considers implementing electronic tracking…
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay recently appointed four new members to its board of trustees. Each will support the laboratory’s mission to study the foundation of global…
