Working Waterfront
Small fish, big role
In 2021, Maine’s commercial harvesters landed 22.1 million pounds valued at $9.5 million (Maine Department of Marine Resources data). SEE MORE
- Community
- People
- Opinion
- Environment
- Inter-island News
- Marine
- Business
- Columns
- Arts
- Education
- Book Review
- Climate Change
- Cranberry Report
- Salt Water Cure
- Journal of an Island Kitchen
- Reflections
- Op Ed
- Observer
- Fathoming
- Field Notes
- Rockbound
- Essay
- Energy
- Editorial
- Letters to the Editor
- In Plain Sight
- Wrack Line
- Dispatches from World Ocean Observatory
- From The Sea Up
Category: Climate Change
Working Waterfront
Skippers program keeps school part of marine careers
Typically, students participate for one year, learning hands-on skills that will help them with present and future maritime careers. Although each program creates its own curriculum, the emphasis is on creating exciting opportunities that meet the needs of the community and students. SEE MORE
Working Waterfront
Study uncovers history shipworm damage
For thousands of years, shipworms—a family of mollusks found in oceans—sank wooden vessels, ravaged wharfs, and shipwrecked sailors. They even devastated the Spanish Armada in the 16th century. Exactly how they have been able to wreak such havoc has remained a mystery, until now. A new study published in the… SEE MORE
Working Waterfront
Winter storms highlight value of Sunrise Trail
DOT bid the work May 8 and awarded it six days later to Hanscom Construction of Marshfield for $438,975. Using the finesse required to navigate massive dump trucks safely along a waterside rail bed, and despite tidal delays, Hanscom completed the work more than two weeks ahead of schedule, on June 7. SEE MORE
Working Waterfront
Lobster Institute names new director
Since 1987 the Lobster Institute has been a center of discovery, innovation and outreach at UMaine with the goal of promoting, conducting, and communicating research focused on the sustainability of the American lobster fishery in the U.S. and Canada. SEE MORE
Working Waterfront
Maine Maritime crew will deploy ‘drifter’ devices
When the Maine Maritime Academy training ship State of Maine sailed from Castine May 8 for the start of the annual summer cruise, she carried 202 students, 25 faculty members, and a crew of 20 professional mariners. She also carried a unusual cargo: six high-tech drifter buoys to be launched… SEE MORE
Working Waterfront
Storms have lasting impact on coastal forests
At Seawall, crews removed some 700 fallen trees that blocked roads and created safety hazards in a popular picnic and camping area, but otherwise the blowdowns at Otter Point and other locations are being left in place. SEE MORE
Working Waterfront
Students contribute to ‘archipelago of knowledge’
The crew of high school students and Hurricane Island educators joined Dr. Carla Guenther, chief scientist at the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries, who is the principal investigator. The focus of this project is to understand where to find juvenile scallops... SEE MORE
Working Waterfront
No surprise: Bad weather causing outages
Severe storms (other than tropical cyclones) and winter weather accounted for nearly three-quarters of these outages. Hurricanes and tropical storms accounted for 14% of outages... SEE MORE
Working Waterfront
A way forward for marine economy: Small-scale aquaculture
Near the end of an April 24 panel discussion in Stonington, a speaker described what he hoped the harbor would look like 50 years from now. Today, early mornings see fishermen heading out in skiffs to their boats, off to haul traps in this top-landing lobster port. But in the… SEE MORE
