by Abigail Muscat On August 22, 2019, 57 water-quality related organizations gathered along the coast from Long Island Sound to Downeast Maine for a single-day water monitoring blitz. The question: “What is the relationship between salinity and alkalinity?” Alkalinity is the ability of water to neutralize an acid, or in other words, resist pH fluctuations. […]
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The Maine Sea Grant College Program and University of Maine scientists Rick Wahle and Damian Brady are project leaders in the $2 million Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Sea Grant to understand physical and chemical changes affecting American lobster in the Gulf of Maine. The initiative […]
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Check out the recent video shot by extension associate Chris Bartlett. Shorebirds migrate through Maine in late summer en route from their northern breeding grounds to their southern wintering areas. Chris Bartlett with Maine Sea Grant recorded these semipalmated sandpipers in Eastport while they were resting at high tide.
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Read about Skylar Bayer’s Maine Sea Grant-funded research on UMaine news: Researchers use DNA in seawater to monitor scallop reproduction The funded projects mentioned in the article are: DV-16-06 Developing a genetic toolkit to detect spawning events of giant sea scallops DV-17-12 Field testing a new genetic marker on spawning scallop populations
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With thanks to Manomet’s Ethel Wilkerson, for contributing the guest blog post below. The project is another example of efforts along Maine’s coastline to diversify the working waterfront, and to explore ways in which the fishing and aquaculture industries can integrate. – D. Morse On August 28th, oyster farmers from mid-coast Maine gathered in […]
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by Natalie Springuel “Where It All Starts” is a short documentary centered around working waterfronts in Maine and their socio-cultural importance in coastal communities. Produced by College of the Atlantic graduate student, Giulia Cardoso, the documentary looks at the working waterfronts of Steuben, Boothbay Harbor and Northeast Harbor through the eyes of local fishermen, while […]
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For an oyster farm to be a profitable enterprise, farmers need to get the product to market. The options that are available to them — especially new farmers — can sometimes be confusing. This sheet briefly summarizes some simple ways that holders of a valid Maine Aquaculture License can get their shellfish to market. This descriptive document […]
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by Catherine Schmitt I. Along the edges of bayou canals, shrimp boats were gearing up for the season, butterfly nets rigged and ready to drop, herons and laughing gulls flying from bank to bank. Along the shore, people young and old fished for spotted sea trout and redfish. Some stood on sinking docks, others sat […]
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by Natalie Springuel First person stories about Winter Harbor’s fisheries heritage are now part of the Winter Harbor Historical Society’s audio collection! A multimedia story map about these interviews can be viewed at the Winter Harbor Fisheries Oral History Project. The Winter Harbor Fisheries Oral History Project, conducted in the Fall of 2017, captured the stories, memories, […]
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by Catherine Schmitt Note: In August, a group of about 40 people gathered to learn about and discuss Maine’s shell middens, part of the Maine Sea Grant-funded research project, Lost to the Sea. The two-day workshop include a field trip to the Whaleback Midden State Historic Site. We thought it would be informative to revisit […]
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