Maine Sea Grant

People and Nature: Adapting to a Changing Climate Charting Maine’s Course A summary of the report presented by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to the Joint Standing Committee on Natural Resources of the 124th Maine Legislature February 2010

Marine Scotland Science Report 03/11 A REPORT ON ELECTRICAL FISHING FOR RAZOR CLAMS (ENSIS SP.) AND ITS LIKELY EFFECTS ON THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT Mike Breen, Trevor Howell and Phil Copland February 2011

Ann Backus Mary E Davis July 2011

In 2010, the Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program at Dartmouth College brought together a group of 50 scientists and policy stakeholders to form C-MERC, the Coastal and Marine Mercury Ecosystem Research Collaborative. The goal was to review current knowledge—and knowledge gaps—relating to a global environmental health problem, mercury contamination of the world’s marine fish. C-MERC […]

MARINE ECOLOGY OF GULF OF MAINE ATLANTIC SALMON SUMMARY DOCUMENT from a 2008-2010 series of workshops Schmitt, Catherine, and Paul Anderson, editors. 2012. Submitted by Maine Sea Grant to the Northeast Fisheries Science Center February 2012

Teresa Johnson Anna Henry Cameron Thompson Commercial fishing is an important economic and cultural element of Maine’s coastal communities. Maine fishing communities are suffering from loss of access to fisheries and infrastructure, regulatory impacts and changing resource abundance. Although fisheries managers are required to assess impacts of fisheries regulations on fishing communities, this has proven […]

Teresa Johnson Anna Henry Cameron Thompson Commercial fishing is an important economic and cultural element of Maine’s coastal communities. Maine fishing communities are suffering from loss of access to fisheries and infrastructure, regulatory impacts and changing resource abundance. Although fisheries managers are required to assess impacts of fisheries regulations on fishing communities, this has proven […]

Teresa R. Johnson Anna Henry Cameron Thompson Commercial fishing is an important economic and cultural element of Maine’s coastal communities. Maine fishing communities are suffering from loss of access to fisheries and infrastructure, regulatory impacts and changing resource abundance. Although fisheries managers are required to assess impacts of fisheries regulations on fishing communities, this has […]

Progress report George W. Kidder, Mount Desert Biological Laboratory Paul Bushmann, Anne Arundel Community College, Maryland Jane Disney, Mount Desert Biological Laboratory Restoration of eelgrass beds in Frenchman Bay by transplanting vegetative shoots has proven successful, and gives rise to beds that propagate by seeding. We explored the use of deliberate seeding to enhance recolonization, […]