A sold-out dinner in Benton aims to change attitudes about a fish that’s ‘not just lobster bait.’ By Peter McGuire, Morning Sentinel Morning Sentinel news story BENTON — The menu included locally smoked whole alewife and two varieties of alewife chowder and lobster, along with traditional sides such as corn, potatoes and rolls. It was Read More
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Maine’s Senators Must Defend Our Clean Streams, Wetlands
By George Lapointe, Special to the BDN Bangor Daily News op-ed Clean water is the lifeblood of Maine. It supports our lobster and marine fishing industries as well as our nation-leading recreational brook trout and locked salmon fisheries. And as our life blood, a healthy system needs all its parts, large and small, to remain Read More
Casco Bay Deemed Healthy, but Trouble Spots Grow
The water quality is good overall, but near coastal areas it is quickly degrading because of nitrogen overload and acidification, a decade of data shows. By Matt Byrne, Staff Writer Portland Press Herald news story Casco Bay is healthy, but water quality near coastal areas and estuaries is rapidly degrading because of man-made pollution, according Read More
Latest Dispute Over Alewives in St. Croix River May Lead to Independent Review
The LePage administration is proposing a working group to examine the scientific arguments over the fish. By Kevin Miller, Staff Writer Portland Press Herald news story AUGUSTA — The LePage administration wants to create a working group to examine the scientific arguments over alewives in the St. Croix River as a way to defuse the Read More
Warming Climate Spells Disaster for Gulf of Maine Fisheries, Unless We Act
By Edward Reiner, Special to the BDN Bangor Daily News op-ed For 13 years I was a lobsterman from Cliff Island. Lobstermen are close observers of the natural world. When you climb into your boat each morning you are a witness to wildness and beauty. But that is half the story. We have worry and Read More
Ocean Acidification Panel Recommends Fast Action in Maine
Changing ocean chemistry threatens marine ecosystem, economy Free Press online news story A group of fishermen, fish farmers, scientists and legislators who are concerned about increasingly acidic seawater, which causes shells to rot on lobsters, clams and other commercial seafood species, laid out a broad strategy this week on how the state should address the Read More
In Maine, Scientists See Signs of Climate Change
By David Abel, Globe staff Boston Globe news story ACADIA NATIONAL PARK, Maine — With milder winters sparking a surge in deer ticks, park rangers now duct-tape their ankles while combing the wilds of Acadia, where native flowers are disappearing at alarming rates and invasive species are thriving. Along the rocky coast of Georgetown, Maine, Read More
Gulf of Maine Warming Concerns World
Times Record editorial Cold Cape Cod clams, delectable Maine lobster, Georges Bank halibut, sweet northern shrimp, tiny populations of wild salmon, sea-running alewives, and every species one can imagine in the Gulf of Maine thrive there because of cold, nutrient- filled waters. But that may all be a fond memory in the not too distant Read More
Dredge Opponents Fear Penobscot River Pollution
The former HoltraChem plant in Orrington released mercury that could wreak more havoc on the area’s fishery. By Tom Bell, Staff Writer Portland Press Herald news story For the opponents of the Searsport dredge project, mercury contamination is the big worry. Those concerns deepened in February when the Maine Department of Marine Resources closed seven Read More
