Media releases writ by Ron Huber, July 27 2000 to Feb 7 2005

Between July 27, 2000 and February 7, 2005 the below 72 media releases penned by Ron Huber were published by the Maine Environmental Policy Institute,  under the rubric of "Task Force Atlantis" for marine protected areas and "Penobscot Bay Watch" for everything else within that bay &  the Gulf of Maine. The same issues as today: aquaculture expansion, commercial, residential and marina sprawl, marine protected areas and offshore carbon prospecting  (Note: with the passing of time, some of the links within the articles don't work, including audio hosted on now defunct Maine Indymedia, in the RealMedia format. 

* President should designate Gulf of Maine border wilderness 7/27/00 (Task Force Atlantis)

** State delays decision on controversial Owl's Head airport expansion until early April, 2001  (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/2/01)

* Northern Gulf of Maine's top marine bird research station: threatened by aquaculture  (Task Force Atlantis, 2/15/01)

** Lobstermen battle Samoset Resort over harbor fishing grounds  (Penobscot Bay Watch, 3/1/01) 

** Picketers protest resort's controversial plan to build a yacht marina in Rockland Harbor's best lobstering area  (Penobscot Bay Watch, 3/5/01)

**** MBNA is dumping contaminated dredge spoils into Rockland's municipal landfill  (Penobscot Bay Watch, 3/16/01)

**Rockland City Council rejects Samoset marina plan  (Penobscot Bay Watch, 3/26/01)

**  Federal agency rejects Samoset marina plan; orders eelgrass study of Rockland Harbor  (Penobscot Bay Watch, 4/4/01) 

** Fish farms rejected at Roosevelt-Campobello International Park and Bowdoin Scientific Station  (Task Force Atlantis, 4/13/01) 

*  Beach grasses shielding the sand dunes at Pemaquid Beach Park may finally gain additional protection  (Penobscot Bay Watch, 6/6/01) 

** Canada begins Georges Bank oil/gas exploration; US Senators urge Bush not to follow suit  (Task Force Atlantis, 6/10/01)

*  Canada begins accepting drilling bids for part of their side of Georges Bank  (Task Force Atlantis, 6/25/01)

* US Fish and Wildlife Service bans the harvest of seaweeds at three National Wildlife Refuges on the Maine coast  (Penobscot Bay Watch, 7/26/01)  

** Fishermen, islanders, conservationists fight fishpen sprawl: Penobscot Bay lobsters, wild salmon said at risk  (Penobscot Bay Watch, 8/21/01) 

** Undersea Wildlands, coastal no-marina zones, fishpen moratoriums to be focus of two New England Ocean Wilderness forums September 11 and 12th (Task Force Atlantis, 9/10/01)

* Undersea Wildlands, fishpen moratorium discussed at New England Marine Protected Area Forum (Task Force Atlantis, 9/25/01)

* Maine DMR Commissioner restricts state research videotapes, bans videotaping of future state trawl survey catches (Penobscot Bay Watch, 10/1/01) 

* Conservation Law group sues General Alum & Chemical Corp for polluting Penobscot Bay (Penobscot Bay Watch, 10/4/01) 

* Marine Protected Area meeting held in Portland draws sparks, compromises (Task Force Atlantis, 10/12/01)

* Fisheries panelists call for revamped fishing & aquaculture laws (Penobscot Bay Watch, 10/21/01)

* Congress proposes killing NOAA marine parks program (Task Force Atlantis, 11/1/01)

* 25 lobster boats out of Corea confront the Department of Marine Resources' survey trawler (Penobscot Bay Watch, 11/8/01) 

** Report charts course for creating Marine Protected Areas in the Gulf of Maine and on Georges Bank (Task Force Atlantis, 11/20/01)

** Mainers criticize Snowe support of federal plan to bail out foreign fishpen companies (Penobscot Bay Watch, 11/22/01)

* Aquaculture meeting raises Maine "open meeting law" concerns (Penobscot Bay Watch, 1/31/02)

* Marine ecology chief and former Maine aquaculture official face parallel investigations of trawl survey, aquaculture improprieties (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/4/02) 

** Atlantic Salmon Federation calls for fishpen-free Penobscot Bay (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/8/02) 

** Hearing on aquaculture reform brings together different points of view (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/11/02) 

** Legislators press fishpen industry for details on pesticide use (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/13/02)  

* Northern Gulf of Maine's top marine bird research station: threatened by aquaculture  (Task Force Atlantis, 2/15/01)

**  Commercial fishing industry, conservationists, tourism industry representatives call for fishpen moratorium (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/18/02) 

** Maine legislature to consider aquaculture moratorium (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/19/02)

** DMR ordered to release files on aquaculture violations to Legislature (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/22/02)

** Maine aquaculture reform bill attacked by DMR, aquaculture industry (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/25/02) 

** Voices in the maine aquaculture reform debate (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/26/02)  

**Legislature's Marine Resources Committee gives coastal towns power to regulate aquaculture (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/27/02)

* DMR threatens to shut down lobstering if April trawl survey is resisted (Penobscot Bay Watch, 3/2/02)

** Fishermen sign petition to the Maine legislature calling for local control of aquaculture (Penobscot Bay Watch, 3/5/02)

** Marine trades, building industries in Knox, Waldo and Hancock county say fishpens harm business (Penobscot Bay Watch, 3/8/02)  

*  Fishy Business: Aquaculture Reform Flames out in Maine (Penobscot Bay Watch, 3/30/02)

* Fishpen proposal for waters off Perry (Passamaquoddy Bay Watch, 4/24/02) 

*  Northport, Maine Speaks Out on Maine Aquaculture Bills (Penobscot Bay Watch, 4/7/03)

** Maine legislators hear pros and cons of aquaculture reform (Penobscot Bay Watch, 4/10/03)

* Baldacci's Blue Ribbon Aquaculture Task Force gets thumbs up (Penobscot Bay Watch, 4/25/03) 

* DMR Commissioner heads to Washington for federal Marine Protected Areas meeting (Task Force Atlantis, 6/17/03)

* Rockland may accept construction waste from out of state for disposal in its quarry dump  (Penobscot Bay Watch, 7/14/03) 

** Maine Aquaculture Task Force Gets Underway (Penobscot Bay Watch, 7/24/03) 

* Federal Agencies issue call for public help on Marine Protected Areas (Task Force Atlantis , 7/25/03)

*  Continued Marine Bioinvasions prompt tough new federal rules (Penobscot Bay Watch, 8/7/03) 

** Criticism has arisen concerning Governor John Baldacci's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Marine Aquaculture (Penobscot Bay Watch, 8/15/03)  

* Maine Aquaculture Task Force hires Canadian consultants for fish farm economics study (Penobscot Bay Watch, 8/19/03) 

* Canadians propose second Atlantic Canada coral forest reserve (Task Force Atlantis, 8/25/03)

** Maine Aquaculture Task Force holds second meeting at the University of Maine's Darling Center (Penobscot Bay Watch, 9/11/03) 

** Aquaculture Task Force to hear from public & NGOs on fishfarms' impacts on property and scenic values (Penobscot Bay Watch, 9/25/03) 

** Aquaculture Task Force to explore coastal towns' role in decisionmaking (Penobscot Bay Watch, 10/14/03)  

** Maine Aquaculture Task Force opts for baywide management study (Penobscot Bay Watch, 10/17/03) 

*  Maine Aquaculture Task Force Online Audio from the October 16 meeting in Rockland, Maine (Penobscot Bay Watch, 10/28/03) 

*  Criticism concerning aquaculture report submitted by a former DMR commissioner (Penobscot Bay Watch, 11/18/03) 

** Maine Aquaculture Task Force report to call for smaller municipal role, bigger fishfarms, more studies (Penobscot Bay Watch, 12/19/03) 

*  Study on carcinogens in farmed atlantic salmon available online (Penobscot Bay Watch, 1/9/04) 

* Final Draft Report: Governor's Task Force on the Planning and Development of Marine Aquaculture (Penobscot Bay Watch, 1/28/04)

** Maine legislators to get presentation from Governor's Task Force on Aquaculture (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/9/04) 

** Maine legislators to hear from public on major aquaculture bill (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/18/04) TEN

** Legislators urged: drop acreage boost from aquaculture bill (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/23/04)

* Opponents of Northport mussel farm expansion call it threat to navigation (Penobscot Bay Watch, 3/1/04)

** LNG tankers could force 15% drop in Penobscot Bay lobsterfishing (Penobscot Bay Watch, 3/12/04) 

* Searsport residents warned by Harpswell lobstermen: Don't trust LNG corporations (Penobscot Bay Watch, 4/20/04)  

*  Federal Wilderness Proposed for 13 Islands off the Maine Coast (Penobscot Bay Watch, 5/5/04) 

* Controversial decision by organizers of a statewide forum on LNG to block a Harpswell fishermen's organization (Penobscot Bay Watch, 7/28/04) 

* Fishermen speak out against wasteful pair trawl herring fishery off Maine (Penobscot Bay Watch, 8/24/04)  

* Released documents show politics behind Baldacci Sears Island LNG policies (Penobscot Bay Watch, 8/31/04)  

* Beginning of Maine's coastwide Bay Management Project (Penobscot Bay Watch, 2/7/05)