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  • Spring Tide Seaweed’s founder, Sarah Redmond, displays the company’s products during an online session about aquaculture operations in Hancock County. SCREENSHOT/MAINE CENTER FOR COASTAL FISHERIES
    September 30

    Seaweed, shellfish aquaculture are thriving in Hancock County

    “How do you take this mysterious, wild, ancient plant and domesticate it?”

    —Sarah Redmond

    Laurie Schreiber

    Media

  • Journal of an Island Kitchen
    September 30

    It’s been a blackberry year

    A young tree set handsome fruit, though small, but they succumbed to brown rot…

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

  • Stevie Robbins Jr.’s boat, the Stacie Vea, as rendered in watercolor by Tom Santaguida, who notes it was “inspired by seeing her out on the international line in a breeze on our way back from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.”
    September 30

    ​The man is gone, but the story remains

    Stevie Robbins … moved in big spaces, not only the windswept offshore realm where he worked, but also in the scope of his emotions and connections.

    Media

  • Carla Guenther, chief scientist with the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries, displays a chart of the complex warm and cold currents that feed the Gulf of Maine. SCREENSHOT: MAINE CENTER FOR COASTAL FISHERIES
    September 28

    Warm currents feeding Gulf of Maine outpacing cold currents

    “We have conditions drawing from the hot-water tap more than the cold-water tap.”

    —Carla Guenther

    Laurie Schreiber

    Media

  • September 28

    Maine’s cold water line blocks most sharks… for now

    “If you want to find the predator, look for the prey.”

    —Dave Grant

    Craig Idlebrook

    Media

  • PVs sunflower
    September 28

    Going solar on Islesford is only option

    Easily, diesel fuel consumption could be over 300,000 gallons per year…

    Media

  • menities like wide gravel paths, screened picnic pavilions, and abundant boat launches set the Cobscook Shores park system apart, says BCF Chief Operating Officer Carl Carlson. PHOTO: SARAH CRAIGHEAD DEDMON
    September 24

    State’s largest private park system opens in Lubec

    Last month Cobscook Shores quietly threw open the gates on 14 parks encompassing more than 500 acres, 10 miles of trails, five campsites, and 13.5 miles of Lubec coastline.

    Media

  • Harvesters walk the rows of hemp, selectively harvesting plants which have unexpectedly matured. When the harvest is fully underway, Schoppee Farm will employ between 50 and 100 local people per month, a well-received addition to the Washington County eco
    September 23

    Machias farm is betting on hemp

    “The wholesale price for hemp products is about 10 or 15 percent of what it was last year.”
    —Ben Edwards

    Media

  • een in this screenshot is a map of right whale presence captured by an acoustic tracking glider deployed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution earlier this year.
    September 17

    For right whale protection—Is technology the future of lobster fishing?

    “Now whales are being found in great abundance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.”

    Laurie Schreiber

    Media

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