Maine Sea Grant

Coastal Conversations show: January 26, 2024WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant This Episode The January 10 and 13, 2024 storms, along with compounding record high tides, storm surge, and strong southeasterly winds, caused much damage throughout the Maine coast, including the loss of many piers and wharves, […]

Coastal Conversations show: February 24, 2023, 4-5 PMWERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant This episode High School students on a fishing boat deploying spat collectors, or mesh bags, into the water column to collect baby scallops. Science teachers and their students hauling line onto a work […]

Coastal Conversations show: January 27, 2023, 4-5 PMWERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant This episode Note: This January 27, 2023 episode of Coastal Conversations features two distinct stories about Gouldsboro, Maine. Story 1: Gouldsboro, a working waterfront community at a crossroads Today’s show features the second episode […]

Coastal Conversations show: December 23, 2022 4-5 PMWERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant Today, in honor of the holiday season, our show features “Maine holiday seafood celebrations, past and present.” We are excited to talk with three women from coastal Maine who write about food and history, […]

Coastal Conversations show: October 28, 2022WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant This episode Today our show features two stories about Eastport, Maine’s easternmost town. First story: Eastport: Reinventing a Waterfront In the far eastern corner of Downeast Maine there’s a 3.7 square mile island. Connected to the […]

Coastal Conversations show: September 23, 2022WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant Maine’s coastline has inspired writers and artists for generations. On today’s Coastal Conversations we are thrilled to feature three contemporary Maine writers who each have a special connection with the coast of Maine and coastlines around […]

Coastal Conversations show: August 26, 2022WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant This episode In mid-July 2022, nearly 200 people gathered in Boston for the sixth National Working Waterfront Network conference. Working waterfronts are where people who make their living on the sea can access the water. They […]

Coastal Conversations show: July 22, 2022WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant This episode Today our show is about the Mound Desert Island-based project called a Landscape of Change. Landscape of Change is a collaborative project with the goal of compiling and publishing historical records of natural history […]

Coastal Conversations show: June 24, 2022WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant This episode Most fishermen will tell you that the presence of Atlantic menhaden on the coast of Maine is cyclical. In the last few years, menhaden, or pogies as the small schooling fish are known locally, […]

Coastal Conversations show: May 27, 2022WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant This episode Last Saturday May 21st was world fish migration day, a global celebration to create awareness about the importance of migratory fish and free-flowing rivers. On the coast of Maine, we often refer to springtime […]