LD 332 An Act To Reevaluate the Frenchboro Area Dragging Exclusion Zone is one of the bills that the Maine Legislature's marine resources committee considered and ultimately decided to "carry over" to a special session later this year. Listen to interesting testimony and discussions at its Public Hearing on March 9, 2021 (37minute audio) and its Work Session March 16th (30 minute audio). Zone is the reddish area on the chart Positions for and against reducing the size of the no-dredges-or drags zone protecting the Frenchboro power cable were strongly made..
Bill summary "This bill directs the Commissioner of Marine Resources to evaluate the size and 33 boundaries of the Frenchboro area, where dragging and scalloping are prohibited, to 34 determine whether the area should be modified. This bill also allows the commissioner to 35 modify by rule that Frenchboro area."
