Maine Scientist Is Leading Expedition To The Top Of The World To Uncover...
A Maine-based scientist is leading an international expedition of some 40 researchers to the top of the world, where they will explore the poorly understood dynamics of Arctic weather in an era of...
View ArticleMaine Department Of Marine Resources Implements Rules To Avert Gear and...
The Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) is imposing a new five-trap limit for lobster trawlers in a restricted area around Mt. Desert Rock — about 6 miles off Frenchboro. Gear conflicts are...
View ArticleHouse Speaker Calls On Lawmaker To Resign Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Maine Democratic leaders are calling on Westbrook Representative Dillon Bates to resign, following allegations that he sought inappropriate relations with a student at an all-girls school in Portland...
View Article‘They May Be Gouging Us’: Commission Will Investigate Possible Excessive...
State regulators are taking a new look at just how much money Central Maine Power's (CMP) shareholders earn from the company's customers and whether the amount may be excessive — or too low. In a...
View ArticleMaine Fishermen Celebrate The Best Catch Of 'Finicky' Pogies In Decades
Fishermen in Maine are on course for the best catch of menhaden in decades, the baitfish commonly known as pogies.
View Article2 Biddeford Men Indicted On Federal Hate Crime Charges
Two Biddeford men face federal hate crime charges for allegedly assaulting an African-American man in a 7-Eleven parking lot in April. The Department of Justice says Maurice Diggins and Dusty Leo were...
View ArticleAnimals Are Trying To Adapt To The Gulf Of Maine's 'Marine Heatwave'
Water temperatures in the Gulf of Maine are on course to be some of the warmest on record, and the "marine heatwave" is being associated with disruptions in the gulf's ecosystem. Some animals in the...
View ArticleAs CMP Transmission Line Plan Charges Ahead, Opposition To The Project Grows...
Central Maine Power (CMP) says that it is ready to negotiate the terms of its bid to build and upgrade 145-miles of high-power transmission lines that would bring electricity from Canada's Hydro Quebec...
View ArticleDown East Shellfishing Areas Closed For Third Straight Year
For the third year in a row a potentially toxic algae is blooming Down East and forcing closures of shellfishing areas.
View ArticleAs Herring Fishery Closes, Maine Fishermen Turn To Plentiful 'Pogies' For Bait
Good news for Maine lobstermen: Just as a scarcity of the herring they use to bait their traps has closed that fishery, state officials are expanding the fishery for another baitfish - menhaden, or...
View ArticleRegulators Call Utilities’ Response To October 2017 Windstorm ‘Reasonable’
State regulators say the response by Maine’s major electric utilities to last October’s windstorm was reasonable, after investigating the utilities’ reaction to the storm, which left as many as 467,000...
View ArticleNOAA Report: Right Whale Rules May Have Worsened Fishing Gear Entanglements
A report by federal scientists says it’s time for a new look at regulations that aim to protect the endangered North American right whale — because they aren’t working and may have made things worse.
View Article'Aquaculture's Next Wave' Explores How Maine Entrepreneurs Are Navigating...
This week we’re taking a deep dive into aquaculture and its potential to add real value to the state’s coastal economies. In “Aquaculture’s Next Wave” we will meet the innovators who are trying to take...
View Article‘The Wave Of The Future Is Breaking, Right Here In Maine’ - Aquaculture And...
Maine's 21st century saltwater farmers are using new techniques and technology to produce scallops, oysters, salmon and eels — to name just a few. All this week Maine Public Radio is profiling...
View ArticleWhy Maine Lobstermen Are Looking To Farmed Scallops To Stay Afloat
The commercial fishing industry is always beset by uncertainty. But in the Gulf of Maine, climate change is amplifying the risks. The waters off Maine are warming faster than most of the planet’s...
View ArticleMainers Send Their Elver Catch To Asia To Reach Market Size. Why Not Grow...
Many Mainers are familiar with the state’s lucrative fishery for transparent “glass eels,” or elvers. They can fetch thousands of dollars a pound when shipped to Japan, China and other Asian countries,...
View ArticleClimate Control — How Mainers Are Protecting Their Oyster Harvest From...
In our special series “Aquaculture’s Next Wave,” we’re looking at new technologies and farming techniques that are expanding the industry’s potential in Maine.
View ArticleMaine Aquaculture Projects Dredge Memories Of Polluted, Industrial Waterways
In “Aquaculture’s Next Wave,” we’ve been reporting on innovation in Maine’s growing seafood farming industry. In the final segment, we look at the conflicts that can arise as the growing sector’s...
View ArticlePortland Mayor Calls For Higher Wages Ahead Of Public Hearing For...
Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling says that vendors who win city contracts should be required to pay workers the area's prevailing wage and to participate in apprenticeship programs, as well.
View ArticleWage-And-Benefit Initiative Has Portland Mayor At Odds With Some Businesses —...
A union backed wage-and-benefit initiative introduced by Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling is putting him at odds with the business community at the local and state levels — and at odds with the City...
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