Summary of Penobscot Bay historic data & primary sources.

Summary of Penobscot Bay historic data & primary sources.

Maine DEP EGAD http://www.maine.gov/dep/maps-data/egad/

EPA's  ECHO program http://echo.epa.gov/

EPA's Facility Registry Service http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/fii/index.html   Searchable by zipcode

* Distribution and abundance of fishes and invertebrates in North Atlantic estuaries NOAA 1994   

Full Report http://penbay.org/gom/noaa_elmr_distr_abund_1994_northatlantic.pdf

Sample Penobscot Bay page http://penbay.org/gom/elmr_data_1994_bluehillbay_penbay_muscongus.jpg

FOPB-Retrieved recent and  historic  Data (including gray literature)

20th century

* Sears Island cargoport plan Environmental documents . Federal, state and NGO docs re the 1995 and 2003 island port plans.

http://www.penbay.org/searsisland/sicargoport.html

 * Upper Penobscot Bay Clam Survey, 1967.  http://www.penbay.org/bm/pbclams1967.html

*  Conference in the Matter of Pollution of the Navigable Waters of the Penobscot River and Upper Penobscot Bay...April 20, 1967

http://www.penbay.org/bm/baypollution1967.html

*  Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine 1929 US Bureau of Fisheries  fishery map with links to data  http://www.penbay.org/wrich/fginnergom2.html

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19th century

* The Salmon Fishery of Penobscot Bay and River 1895-1896, US Fish Commission http://www.penbay.org/usfc/usfc1897_salmon.html* 

* The Lobster Fishery of Maine US Fish Commission 1899  http://penbay.org/usfc/lfm/usfc1899_lobsterfisheryme.html

• HISTORIC WATER QUALITY DATA 

• * Historic & realtime Penobscot Bay weather buoy data. Source NERACOOS  http://www.neracoos.org/datatools/realtime/all_data?platform=F0

* Ducktrap River realtime and historic  flows http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/nwismap/?site_no=01037380&agency_cd=USGS

* Archived citizen water quality monitoring data of Penobscot Bay  Source Pen Bay Stewards http://www.belfastbaywatershed.org/pen-bay-stewards.html

HISTORIC AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY  source: USGS http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ 

• Stockton Harbor. Kidder Point 1940 and 1940-2011 comparisons http://penobscotbay.blogspot.com/2014/11/kidder-point-high-altitude-aerial.html

• Rockport Harbor 1977  http://penbay.org/rockport/rockport_aerial_041777.jpg  Source USGS http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ 

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RECENT AERIAL VIDEOGRAPHY courtesy Lighthawk http://www.lighthawk.org/

* Belfast south side of Passagassawakeag River.  Head of tide to Little River, May 1, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACtReh14yC8

* GAC Chemical Corp western Stockton Harbor flyby  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s-MPd2bFN8

* search for historical postcards online (helped with a campaign against marina that would've interfered with current u se as lobstering grounds)

http://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho-1/sites/default/files/collection/Stockton%20Docks.jpg

ROCKPORT HARBOR FOREST COVER EVALUATION DATA RESOURCES

* Aerial photograph 1977  Rockport Harbor (large) http://penbay.org/rockport/rockport_aerial_041777.jpg  Source USGS http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ 

* Bathymetric chart of Rockport harbor lg jpg http://penbay.org/rockport/rockport_harbor_chart_lg.jpg

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UNDERWATER VIDEOGRAPHY & STILL PHOTOS 

Rockport Harbor

* Rockport Harbor  Photos  of Habitat Area of Particular Concern for juvenile Atlantic Cod from FOPB's 10/19/12  underwater towed vidcam run 

 http://penbay.org/rockport/rockport_hbr_101912_biofoulingpictures/

*Rockport Harbor vvideo, Porterfield Ledge,  4 minute  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7N8LgT9I-0

Rockland Harbor

* 16 minute video of Rockland Harbor  HAPC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYK7rlxPBU (Maine department of Marine Resources

Searsport Harbor

Diver video footage off northwest shore of Sears Island  (ghostport site) 2009   369mb mov file

http://penbay.org/searsisland/si_vid/searsisland_100809_bayfloor.mov

5 minute excerpt http://penbay.org/searsisland/si_vid/searsisland_100809_bayfloor_5min.mp4

 Wayback Machine-accessed earlier Maine environmental data - See http://web.archive.org/web/http://state.me.us/dep  &   earlier Maine DEP website(1998-2014 archive and the present MDEP URL's archive (2002-2015) http://web.archive.org/web/20141228134600/http://www.maine.gov/dep/ Some of the subpages are archived down to the data level