Maine Sea Grant

Cheryl Daigle Lower Penobscot Watershed Coalition http://www.penobscotriver.org/content/4074/Penobscot_River_Revival_Festival/ The first Penobscot River Revival, a festival on the Bangor waterfront in July 2008, was imagined as a way to celebrate the restoration of the Penobscot River. The event was modeled after the successful Spring Running event, which Sea Grant has also supported. Well over 500 people attended […]

Malcolm Burson Maine Department of Environmental Protection 17 State House Station Augusta, ME 04333 207.287.7755 Email Malcolm Burson Maine has been a leader in addressing climate change and in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, including being the first state to pass a law with specific greenhouse gas reduction targets. While these mitigation efforts must continue, the […]

George Kidder III Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Box 35, Old Bar Harbor Road Salisbury Cove, ME 04672 207.288.9880 x421 gkidder@mdibl.org Eelgrass is a valued component of shallow-water estuaries that provides habitat for many species, including juvenile mussels and fish, and helps maintain clean water. Eelgrass beds are disappearing in many areas for various and […]

Deborah Bouchard University of Maine Animal Health Laboratory 5735 Hitchner Hall Orono, ME 04469 207.581.2676 dbouchard@umext.maine.edu Populations of Atlantic cod, once the founding species of coastal New England, are at record low abundances in the Gulf of Maine. Finfish aquaculture provides a means of supplementing declining wild fisheries to meet human demand for sustainable seafood. […]

Samuel Truesdell School of Marine Sciences 225 Libby Orono, ME 04469 207.581.4405 Truesdell’s dissertation research focuses on harvester effort in the federal scallop fishery. Data from highly mobile and scattered harvesters can lead to misinterpretation of fishery statistics. In Maine, where some areas have been closed to scallop fishing, harvesters are redistributing effort, potentially clouding […]

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 […]

Ben Fuller Penobscot Marine Museum Searsport, ME 207.548.2529 x207   In April 2010, Bumblebee Foods announced the closure of the Stinson Seafood Plant in Prospect Harbor, Maine, the last sardine cannery in the United States. Realizing the significance of this event, Ben Fuller of the Penobscot Marine Museum mobilized a documentary film crew from the University […]

Steve Coghlan 5755 Nutting Hall, Room 240 University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.2880 Many streams in Maine’s coastal watersheds once provided habitat for sea-run (or anadromous) fishes like Atlantic salmon and alewives, but populations of these fish have declined or disappeared as a result of centuries of dam construction and pollution. A growing number […]

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 […]