Brian Tarbox Assistant Professor in Marine Science Southern Maine Community College Fort Road South Portland, ME 04106 207.741.5767 btarbox@smccme.edu Spawning stocks of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) have disappeared from downeast Maine, but juvenile cod have made regular appearances since at least 2000. The source of these juveniles and their adult grounds is unknown. While previous […]
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Karen Wilson University of Southern Maine 106 Bailey Hall Gorham, ME 04038 207.780.5395 kwilson@usm.maine.edu Blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis) are anadromous, migratory, schooling fishes believed to spend most of their life cycle at sea. Adults may return multiple times to their natal rivers to spawn. Blueback herring run at the same time as alewives, and together […]
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Robert Johnston Clark University Klaus Moeltner and Christine Blinn Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Christine Feurt University of New England This Northeast Regional Sea Grant Consortium project will combine coastal hazards data with novel property value matching models to quantify the economic consequences of the Northeast region’s coastal hazard vulnerability and related adaptation. These […]
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William G. Ambrose, Jr. Professor of Biology Bates College Lewiston, ME 04240 207.786.6114 wambrose@bates.edu Brian Beal Professor of Marine Ecology University of Maine at Machias Machias, ME 04654 207.255.1314 bbeal@maine.edu Soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) are one of the most important commercial marine species harvested in Maine. In the last decade, clam landings averaged $14 million […]
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Erin Owen Husson University 1 College Circle Bangor, ME 04401 207.941.7744 Email Erin Owen Maine’s small but unique coastal scallop fishery has been a lucrative source of income for fishing communities, only second in value to the state’s lobster fishery. In response to a steady decline in landings, the Maine Department of Marine Resources initiated […]
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Porter Hoagland, Di Jin, and Hauke Kite-Powell Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution John Duff University of Massachusetts-Boston Investigators will examine various legal and fiscal/economic mechanisms employed by coastal communities in the Northeast to formulate and carry out disaster response and mitigation programs. Local responses to flooding and erosion, such as beach nourishment and armoring, will be […]
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Neal Pettigrew School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207.581.4384 Email Neal Pettigrew Casco Bay is a dynamic coastal region that hosts the greater Portland metropolitan area, Maine’s largest city. Casco Bay is home to both endangered and commercially important marine species, is used for many recreational and tourism activities, and is […]
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Dwayne Shaw Downeast Salmon Federation PO Box 201/187 Main St. Columbia Falls, ME 04623 207.483.4336 info@mainesalmonrivers.org On the third Friday in April, the Downeast Salmon Federation hosts a community smelt fry to celebrate spring and the annual harvest of rainbow smelt, a native sea-run fish. Friends, family, and visitors gather next to DSF’s Wild Salmon […]
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William Ambrose Bates College wambrose@bates.edu Bates College hosted the 2013 meeting of the New England Estuarine Research Society in Portland, Maine. Several scientists and students presented results of Sea Grant-funded research, and Maine Sea Grant distributed publications from our display in the sponsor exhibit area. NEERS is a nonprofit organization with a wide-ranging membership from […]
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Richard A. Wahle Research Associate Professor School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 Charlene Bergeron School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Christine M. Tilburg Ecosystem Indicator Partnership, Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment Maine is perilously dependent on a single large fishery: the American lobster. This fisheries’ collapse would […]
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