fisheries

Published
March 17, 2025

Maine doles out last of $60M storm recovery fund to 40 businesses

It brings the total to 217 businesses, nonprofits and working waterfronts awarded funding after a series of storms in late 2023 and early 2024 decimated the coast and inland communities.
Published
March 5, 2025

Midcoast fishermen warn of ‘destructive’ end to Maine Sea Grant

Aquaculture farmers from Westport Island to Biddeford warn that the Trump administration's decision to cut federal funding will harm Maine’s working waterfront, though Sen. Susan Collins announced Wednesday that the terms were being negotiated.
Published
March 5, 2025

Trump administration agrees to renegotiate Maine Sea Grant funding

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, pressured the U.S. commerce secretary Tuesday, saying withdrawing the $4.5 million award that funds years of research would 'cause devastating harm' to the state's coastal communities.
Published
March 4, 2025

King, Pingree and Collins urge Trump administration to reinstate Maine Sea Grant funding

Maine's program is the only one of 34 nationwide that has lost its funding so far, and the move comes on the heels of the president's threat to cut Maine's federal funding over a disagreement about transgender athletes.
Published
March 1, 2025

Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program

The move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House's efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget — leaves the fishery organization’s programming and 20 employees in limbo.

Published
February 28, 2025

Maine lobstermen hauled smallest catch in 15 years

But they raked in the second-highest price per pound in the fishery's history in 2024.
Published
February 26, 2025

Maine fisheries scientist nominated to head marine resources agency

Carl Wilson will temporarily replace Patrick Keliher as commissioner but must win Senate approval to keep the post on a permanent basis.
Published
February 18, 2025

Maine’s longtime marine resources commissioner is stepping down

Patrick Keliher, who has served in the position since 2012, is the longest-serving commissioner in the history of the Department of Marine Resources. He will retire March 14.
Published
February 4, 2025

Brunswick officials voice support for better fish passage on the Androscoggin River

As conversation around fish passage at the dam grows this year, Brunswick Town Council took a stance in support of pursing a new fish ladder on one of Maine's largest rivers.
Published
January 27, 2025

Here’s what the latest global climate assessment means for Maine

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released a new global assessment outlining a path toward a sustainable future. Dr. Kanae Tokunaga of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute was one of two experts from the U.S. chosen to contribute. Here’s her take on what ‘transformative change’ could mean for working waterfronts.