Maine Sea Grant

The following story on Signs of the Seasons: A New England Phenology Program was published on the NOAA Education and Outreach Facebook page on August 9, 2016. By NOAA Education and Outreach  Signs of the Seasons is a New England #CitizenScience program with two purposes: to train and support volunteer observers to collect robust phenology […]

A new publication by Dr. Yong Chen and colleagues, “An evaluation of underlying mechanisms for ‘fishing down marine food webs‘” takes a closer look at a metric, mean trophic level, commonly used to evaluate fishery sustainability. This paper adds to a long list of publications by Dr. Chen addressing the emergent patterns and underlying processes involved in the management […]

NOTE This blog post was written by Marissa McMahan, a graduate student at Northeastern University, working on a Sea Grant funded project to explore the potential for a soft-shell green crab seafood industry in Maine. The idea for this project began with a conversation at a Christmas party last year. A friend of mine, Jonathan […]

NOTE: This post was written by Amalia Harrington, a graduate student in Rick Wahle’s lab at the Darling Marine Center, working on Wahle’s latest Sea Grant research project.  It is no secret that the American lobster supports the most productive fishery in Maine. Many researchers have dedicated their careers to understanding the biology of this important species. […]

This week, Sea Grant-supported researcher Skylar Bayer will be reporting from the International Marine Conservation Congress of the Society for Conservation Biology. Bayer is a guest speaker at the storytelling workshop on the 28th, and then is presenting on her research, “Building a tool kit to assess reproductive performance of commercially exploited broadcast spawners inside and outside […]

Have you heard about Maine Sea Grant’s radio show Coastal Conversations? It airs on the fourth Friday of each month at 10 AM on WERU Community Radio 89.9 FM, which broadcasts from roughly mid-coast to nearly the Canadian border. You can also access past shows online anytime. Since we started the show in January 2015, […]

Shad are the largest member of the herring family, which includes Atlantic herring, blueback herring, and alewives. They are among the 12 species of native sea-run or diadromous fish expected to benefit from efforts to restore free-flowing rivers, efforts like the Penobscot River Restoration Project, which recently completed a bypass channel around the Howland Dam, […]

Ah, summer! So short and so sweet. We go outside, into the long days, and stay outside in the warm nights. We work outside, play outside, sleep outside—and eat outside. The Maine coast abounds with patios, decks, porches, picnic tables, and other outdoor seating. We search these places out, press ourselves against the edge of […]

EDUCATION HIGHLIGHTS Maine Sea Grant is pleased to announce the winners of the Undergraduate Scholarship in Marine Sciences for the 2016-17 academic year: Rose Edwards, Emma Kimball, Sophia Prisco, and Grace Shears (College of the Atlantic); Beretta Ficek and Gillian O’Neal (Maine Maritime Academy); Melissa Rosa (University of New England); Olivia Streit and Aisling Farragher-Gemma […]

May is here, and that means the annual return of many things: flowers and birds; sunshine and garden words; foliage and flowers; fish and more fish. The annual arrival of fish to coastal rivers, this Rite of Spring, is somewhat unique to Maine. Twelve species of migratory (sea-run or diadromous) fish are native to the […]