The Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries (MCCF) has named Paul Anderson as its new executive director. Anderson will begin working at the Stonington nonprofit in September and will fully assume executive director duties Jan. 1.

In Maine, April is a flirt, flashing a warm, beckoning smile one day, and spitting snow the next.

We found a huge, gorgeous oak tree in a grassy clearing on the west end of the island and set up our tents under it.

Megan Grumbling’s Booker’s Point is a remarkable homage in verse to one Bernard A. Booker, 1922-2008, the “unofficial mayor of Ell Pond, Maine, and finder of gold in quartz.”

The overall value of rockweed, after it's been processed into retail products, is around $20 million per year…

“The last several surveys have been very disappointing, with below average recruitment.”

—Maggie Hunter of DMR

Some sources describe this walk as a dance, but I think it looks more like the bird is imitating a “low rider” car…

The July 21, 1875 Daily Kennebec Journal reported that 65 sturgeon was the largest haul in one night.

A survey aimed at residents of Maine’s 15 unbridged, year-round island communities reveals deep concern about ticks and the diseases they carry, such as Lyme disease.