When colonists came to New England—and the Gulf of Maine in particular—the spectacular fish runs they wrote home about were the striped bass, not salmon.

The landscape suddenly shifted from jagged edges to pillowy slopes of granite.

Bureaucrats, academics, and advocates develop talking points, position papers, and policies to address the problems of our coast. Galen Koch has chosen a different approach.

“We should be talking about the horizontal shoreline changes that come from the sea level rise.” —Carol White

I’ve concluded that the more engaging the sky is to look at, the worse a ride it would be...

A panel on the museum lawn features a map showing the location of 160 weirs along the Maine coast in 1870; there were 35 of these fish traps in Searsport and neighboring Stockton Springs alone. Not a single weir remains.

Invasive green crabs responsible for decimating Maine's soft-shell clam industry are being investigated for possible culinary purposes. Art conservator Jonathan Taggart, marine biologist Marissa McMahan, and Georgetown lobsterman Chris Jamison traveled to Venice last year to learn the secrets of harvesting green crabs for gourmet dishes.

Global warming and climate changes are much too important to Maine and the rest of the world to be rectified by executive order…

Millions of barrels of oil flow through the pipeline that runs from South Portland to refineries in Montreal. While this is less oil than in the past (because of the supply coming from the Alberta tar sands), it is still enough to pose a threat to marine life.