Maine Sea Grant

Dick Clime Coastal Enterprises, Inc. 36 Water St., PO Box 268 Wiscasset, ME 04578 207.882.7552 x191 Email Dick Clime Maine’s commercial fishermen are confronting declining stocks of many fish species and stagnant prices for others, while costs of bait, ice, and fuel have increased. This situation has resulted in decreased incomes and greater risk. Maine […]

Aaron Dority Penobscot East Resource Center PO Box 27 Stonington, ME 04681 207.367.2708 aaron@penobscoteast.org Fishermen targeting groundfish species (cod, haddock, flounder, monkfish, etc.) face increased costs due to management and fishery changes. In order for the industry, and fishing communities, to survive, fishermen have to earn an equitable price for their catch. Meanwhile, people are […]

David Guay Regional Coordinator, NOSB 2010 University of New England 11 Hills Beach Rd. Biddeford, ME 04005 207.602.2188 dguay1@une.edu The Nor’easter Ocean Sciences Bowl is an annual regional competition for high school students focused on topics related to the oceans. In this one-day academic tournament, teams of high school students compete against other teams from […]

Rick Wahle Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences 189 McKown Point Road West Boothbay Harbor, ME 04575 Email Rick Wahle 207.633.9659 In the 1980s, a disconnect between what lobstermen were seeing at sea and what scientists were saying led to a new approach to marine ecology. Scientists began to recognize the importance of larval dynamics to […]

Dwayne Shaw Downeast Salmon Federation PO Box 201 Columbia Falls, ME 04623 207.483.4336 dsf@panax.com As coastal fish populations disappear, so too do the fishing communities they once supported. Fisheries heritage projects seek to highlight and conserve fishing traditions past and present, through education and information provided to residents and visitors. The Downeast Salmon Federation occupies […]

Thomas Trott Suffolk University 41 Temple Street Boston, MA 02114-4280 617.573.8246 codfish2@earthlink.net Among the New England coastal states, the least is known about invasive species introductions and distributions in Maine. Information about the status of the Maine coastal environment and the health and diversity of habitats impacted by invasive species is needed for local and […]

William Ambrose Carnegie Science Hall Bates College Lewiston, ME 04240 207. 786.6114 wambrose@abacus.bates.edu In the past decade, fishery scientists, managers, and ecologists have expressed increasing concern about the effects of commercial fisheries on benthic communities. Although the effects of dredges and trawls on sub-tidal, hard and soft bottom communities have been studied, very few studies […]

Hilary Neckles USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center 196 Whitten Road Augusta, ME 04330 207-622-8205 ext.119 hneckles@usgs.gov Eelgrass (Zostera marina L) is the dominant seagrass occurring in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, where it often forms extensive meadows in coastal and estuarine areas. Eelgrass beds are extremely productive and provide many valuable ecological functions […]

Pat White Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation PO Box 523 Kennebunk, ME 04043 207-985-8088 The commercial lobster fishery, the economic engine for so many coastal communities in the Gulf of Maine, is undergoing extreme changes. In 2008, an apparent drop in landings, lower prices paid to lobstermen for their product, and rising fuel and bait […]

Scott Hall Research Coordinator Audubon Seabird Restoration Program Belfast, ME 04915 Most information about Atlantic puffins is derived from studies of their breeding colonies on Maine's outer coastal islands. Where they go during the winter, when they are thought to roam the ocean from the Gulf of Maine to Greenland and Iceland, however, is still […]