Maine Department of Marine Resources

Type: Organization

Name: Maine Department of Marine Resources

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Warmer gulf forcing changes

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - The Gulf of Maine is vital to life in our state. It feeds us, affects our weather and makes many jobs possible. But while the Gulf is big - 36,000 square miles of ocean - its also changing.The Gulf of Maine is getting warmer, ... [Published WCSH-TV - May 16 2013]

Entities: Gulf of Maine, Species, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Maine Department of Marine Resources

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Robotic Sensors Monitor Red Tides in Gulf of Maine

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is utilizing new robotic instruments to help monitor and manage harmful algal blooms (HABs) or red tides in New England. The first instrument has been in use since last month, and a second will be deployed ... [Published Environmental Protection Online - May 13 2013]

Entities: Gulf of Maine, Red Tide, Robotics, Toxin, Shellfish

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

SNAPSHOT: Alewives' tale

Alewives stack up Sunday in Seven Mile Stream in Vassalboro, while migrating from the Atlantic Ocean to Webber Pond. Thousands of the river herring are moving up the Kennebec River to various fresh water lakes to spawn, according to Maine Department of ... [Published Kennebec Journal - May 08 2013]

Entities: Maine Department of Marine Resources, Fresh Water, Herring

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Clam study moving forward in Freeport

FREEPORT – The Freeport Town Council will fund a study of the town’s depleting shellfish stocks – a historic first in Maine marine research and a potential life preserver for the struggling clamming community.The May 2 decision to keep a previously appropriated ... [Published Keep Me Current - May 07 2013]

Entities: Shellfish, Clam, Predation, University of Maine at Machias, Maine Department of Marine Resources

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

SNAPSHOT: Orange biologists

Maine Department of Marine Resources technician Jason Beaudry leaps out of a boat in Gardiner recently after searching the Kennebec River with biologists Jason Bartlett, center, and Gail Whipplehauser with a side scan sonar between Gardiner and Augusta. ... [Published Kennebec Journal - May 07 2013]

Entities: Biologist, Maine Department of Marine Resources, Jason Bartlett

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

Measure Being Considered Would Allow Dragging For Lobsters

AUGUSTA, Maine - The state Legislature is considering a bill that would let lobster fishermen keep and sell the lobsters that get caught up in their drag nets.It's a controversial subject and similar legislation failed back in 2007.This time around, the ... [Published 970AM WZAN - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Maine Department of Marine Resources, Haskell

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Marine Harvest AS

IN BRIEF- Aquaculture investors wait for their ship to come in

There is a saying in Myanmar: “Here there are only poor people, but no one is starving to death.” This is because Myanmar is rich in the products of nature. Wild fruits and vegetables are widely distributed, and there is a seemingly inexhaustible supply ... [Published Fish Information & Services - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Aquaculture, Marine Harvest AS, Myanmar/Burma, AquaBounty Technologies Inc

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Regulators change stance on 'dragging' bill

The Maine Department of Marine Resources supports a bill that would allow groundfishing vessels to land lobsters that they drag up as bycatch.The Bangor Daily News reported that Maine's lobstermen have consistently opposed similar bills (a version was ... [Published Mainebiz - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Maine Department of Marine Resources, Scallop, Vessel

Quotes

...Prof. Andrew Pershing of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and the University of Maine sums it up this way: "I describe the Gulf of Maine last summer as looking like you moved the Gulf of Maine south to New Jersey" . That was in 2012, when what he calls an "ocean heat wave" hit the Gulf and some other parts of the North Atlantic

Warmer gulf forcing changes [Published WCSH-TV - May 16 2013]

"All of the tenants that would qualify as a marine use are still not able to pay those reduced rents" Sigfridson said

Vacancies plague Portland waterfront [Published Individual.com - May 11 2013]

"This deployment is a critical step towards our long-term dream of having a network of instruments moored along the coast of the Gulf of Maine, routinely providing data on the distribution and abundance of HAB cells and toxins. The technology will greatly enhance management capabilities and protection of public health in the region" says Don Anderson, WHOI senior scientist and the project's principal investigator

WHOI deploys new robotic sensor in Gulf of Maine coastal waters to monitor HABs [Published News-Medical.Net - May 08 2013]

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