What do you do if your business sells bait to lobstermen and suddenly your highest volume product — fresh herring — is in short supply? You adapt. In recent years Maine bait dealers have faced … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceThe Department of Marine Resources in July awarded six grants for research programs that will contribute to improved understanding of lobster habitat, stock assessment, monitoring, impacts of management actions on the fishery, and how those can be … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceA project in Maine, boosted by a new grant, would establish the first semi-automated commercial scallop aquaculture operations outside Japan. The $300,000 grant to CEI, a Brunswick business development organization, from the Foundation for Food … Continue reading
Category: Miscellaneous, ScienceThe fact that the Gulf of Maine is warming more quickly than the majority of the world’s ocean regions is alarming enough. But with that warming comes an equally threatening change to the Gulf’s waters, … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceThe Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries, a 15-year old nonprofit in Stonington that works to secure a sustainable future for fishing and fishing communities, has launched a new virtual reality exhibit as part of Discovery … Continue reading
Category: Miscellaneous, Programs, ScienceImagine that a barrel of herring bait costs $500. Your bait is rationed to only a few trays per day. Several days each week there is no bait at all. On days when you can … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceWhale Updates DMR Gear Research Project — The Maine Department of Marine Resource’s (DMR) three-year rope testing project starts July 1. The project has four objectives: 1) use a Web-based survey to voluntarily gather information … Continue reading
Category: MLA News, ScienceHerring Updates 2018 Herring Landings The Atlantic herring fishery season opened on June 3 with four consecutive landing days per week. There is a 480,000 pound (12 trucks) weekly landing limit per vessel of which … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceIt’s hard to imagine but the well-being of animals as diverse as the giant North Atlantic right whale and the diminutive herring are dependent on a creature the size of a grain of rice: Calanus … Continue reading
Category: Management, ScienceThe Department of Marine Resources (DMR) study of vertical lines used in the lobster fishery kicks off in full this month. The three-year project, funded by a $714,000 grant from the National Marine Fisheries Service … Continue reading
Category: Management, Science