Maine Seafood Value Breaks Record
Portland, Maine — Maine’s lifeblood commercial fishing industry once again broke records for the value of marine species at the dock in 2015, state officials said. Fishermen in the state topped $631 million at the dock with their catch last year, surpassing the previous year’s total by more than $33 million. Last year’s total catch also broke previous records. Lobsters constituted more than three-quarters of the total value at more...
Seaweed: Maine’s Hot New Product
Biddeford, Maine — It’s green, it’s gooey and it’s giving Maine’s famous lobsters a run for their money. Well, not really. At least not yet. But when it comes to seaweed production, Maine is the country’s No. 1. The state now supports more than 20 companies that grow or collect seaweed, about double from 10 years ago. Maine harvesters collected 17.7 million pounds of seaweed in 2014 — the most ever recorded for the state and more than...
Fishing Regulators Approve Habitat Changes
Portland, Maine — Federal fishery regulators say they will keep much-debated protections for Cashes Ledge in the Gulf of Maine in place as part of a broad effort to alter the scope of New England’s fishing grounds. The decision to preserve Cashes Ledge came as the New England Fishery Management Council debated changes to habitat protections in the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, southern New England waters and other key fishing areas....
