“Our goal is to give kids an education that will literally change their lives,” said Peter Harris, president of the Herring Gut Learning Center's board of directors.
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.
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.
The light spills out into the hall and exhibit space neighboring the new exhibit and marches across a 180-degree screen curving along the back wall of the exhibit space. A projector mounted from the top of the lantern frame beams a panoramic time-lapsed film...
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.
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