Jul 26, 2007

GOM Right Whale Protection Stymied by Bush Admin

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July 24, 2007. The White House is currently delaying enactment of a final rule intended to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic ...
Jul 21, 2007

Seal Island: ACOE, USFWS and other stakers recommend "Remedial Investigation & Feasibility Study

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The latest communication from Army Corps of Engineers is promising: "An RI/FS was recommended at this site due to past discovery of MEC...
Jul 11, 2007

Sears Island Joint Use Committee takes first steps. updated

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Sears Island's Joint Use Planning Committee met July 11th. See media coverage . The purpose of the two hour meeting, according to the a...
Jul 6, 2007

Maine Fisheries & Community Based Resource Management : Can ecologically sensitive foxes really guard the marine henhouse?

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Maine's mainstream marine conservation organizations have teamed up with several commercial fishing organizations to garner themselves c...
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Jul 1, 2007

Sears Island: SIPISC to SIJUPC

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Sears Island Planning Initiative Steering Committee has morphed into the Sears Island Joint Use Planning Committee. The new group will meet ...
Jun 18, 2007

Bombs Away From Penobscot Bay - Seal Island cleanup priority rises

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The Seal Island parties of interest met last Monday. It was a small party, though: US Army Corps of Engineers, US Fish and Wildlife, Maine ...
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Jun 15, 2007

Seal Island clean up: out of sight, out of money, out of mind.

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The congressionally funded interagency group planning the cleanup of bomb waste from two marine islands off Maine used for bombing pra...
Jun 9, 2007

Seal Island munitions "cleanup" plan leaves 100s of bombs behind.

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Updated June 14, 2007. Out of sight, out of money, out of mind. The congressionally funded interagency group planning the cleanup of bomb...
Jun 8, 2007

Seal Island Bomb Range cleanup planners to meet Monday in Portland.

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Seal Island is about 6 miles east of Matinicus Island. The mile-long W-shaped island had thousands of artillery shells and rockets rained ...
May 28, 2007

Rockland Harbor Lobsterfishery - Saved from Marina Sprawl

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Amazing but true: Maine Department of Environmental Protection actually PROTECTED a nearshore lobster ground and scenic shoreline from mar...
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Apr 25, 2007

Sears Island - end of one committee, start of another!

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On April 27, 2007, (Friday morning), the Sears Island Planning Initiative committee holds its final meeting at Searsport Town Hall. From 9 ...
Apr 24, 2007

Maine eels! Protect them lest they go extinct!

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Come to the state legislature Wednesday April 25th at 1pm. and speak about "A n Act To Protect Native Diadromous Fish during Their Migr...
Apr 18, 2007

Penobscot Bay Foghorn Duet - Now on CD

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Listen to the haunting call-and-chant of two great lighthouse horns guarding the rocky entry to Penobscot Bay's Rockland Harbor one cool...

MDEP nixes Samoset pier! Rockland Breakwater lobstering saved!

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Rockland harbor lobstering, recreational fishing saved from resort pier plan. Maine Department of Environmental Protection has rejected a...
Apr 12, 2007

Sturgeon are surging!. On Aril 25th help them and all Maine's migratory fishes.

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Friends of Marymeeting Bay urges your help in supporting a bill tto bring to a decent end the struggle to free from river blocking dams, t...
Apr 7, 2007

Rockland Breakwater - DEP's draft denial and the final comment countdown!

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It's only four day s until the Maine DEP pounds the last nail into the coffee of the undead Samoset Pier . Help them swing the mallet b...
Mar 5, 2007

Catching lobsters with a dragger on the Maine coast.

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Catching Lobsters with a groundfish trawler along the Maine coast Click this link for photographs from two successive "tows" of ...
Mar 3, 2007

Chilloa-ing effect on free speech at Maine Fishermen's Forum

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Struggle to protect nearshore fishing grounds divides forum organizers. Opponents of efforts by the Samoset Resort to gain state permissio...
Feb 19, 2007

Lower Penobscot River Watershed Coalition meets Feb 26, Bangor.

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Like Penobscot Bay, the tidal Penobscot River plays an important role in the fish and wildlife ecology of the Gulf of Maine. The Lower P...
Feb 7, 2007

Feb 14th legis ponder Kennebec migratory fish restoration, reimbursing Commercial Safety Councilors, limit mahogany quahog fishery to boat owners

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Wednesday: Feb 14 th 1:00 pm PH Room 214, Cross State Office Building Public Hearing on Marine related Bills LD# 324-Reso...