Maine Sea Grant

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 […]

You don’t have to travel far in Maine before running into former Knauss Marine Policy Fellows working at all levels of state government, in nonprofit organizations, industry associations, and other organizations serving Maine’s coastal ecosystems and communities. Since 1979, more than 1,000 young professionals have spent a year immersed in marine policy as Dean John […]

by Chase Brunton The Marine Sciences Club at the University of Maine in Orono has designated this week (April 18-22) “Ocean Conservation Week.” The event is an effort to spread awareness of marine issues and show how people can act in support of the world’s oceans. The club will be present at a table in the Memorial […]