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Towns fear, fight aquaculture expansion

There’s a new war brewing along the Maine coast, and the enemy is what some perceive as the uncontrolled spread of aquaculture. According to the Department of Marine Resources, between 2017 and 2021, aquaculture leases in Maine waters increased from about 110 to approximately 185. The total acreage encompassed by… SEE MORE

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Climate is the real culprit in whale saga

In following the rollercoaster of how new regulations designed to protect the North Atlantic right whale will impact Maine’s lobster fishery and the communities the industry supports, two recent announcements stuck out to me. One is the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) five-year review of the species. The whales are… SEE MORE

Babb’s The Iron Works (1977, oil on panel, 36 x 48 in. collection of Janet Starr).

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Joel Babb’s BIW

Over its nearly 130-year existence, Bath Iron Works has also attracted artists. SEE MORE

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How to shrink your seafood footprint

Farmed oysters, along with their cousins the clam and the mussel, are extremely carbon-light. SEE MORE

Detail ofA Kosti Ruohomaa photograph made at Freeport’s L.L. Bean. PHOTO: COURTESY PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM

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Ruohomaa featured in Freeport

Kosti Ruohomaa was a prominent mid-20th century photojournalist who grew up in Rockland. SEE MORE

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Study: lobster has small carbon footprint

In the spring of 2021, the Island Institute undertook a carbon footprint study with Maine-based seafood company and Island Institute partner Luke’s Lobster. It was the first time greenhouse gas emissions were measured along one company’s supply chain of Gulf of Maine lobster. Both the Institute, publisher of The Working… SEE MORE

Staff scientist Mike Doan collects water quality data from Friends’ research vessel, R/V Joseph E. Payne using a data sonde, a device that measures temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and other parameters.

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Category: Marine

Towns fear, fight aquaculture expansion

Climate is the real culprit in whale saga

Joel Babb’s BIW

How to shrink your seafood footprint

Ruohomaa featured in Freeport

Study: lobster has small carbon footprint

Casco Bay data shows rapid warming

A well-deserved poetic tribute

Maine boatbuilding: Busy, but fraught

Home, again, to Matinicus