I keep my eyes focused on a distant, imaginary point on the horizon, trying to trick my inner ear…

Funds will be used to construct a boat launch, breakwater, and wharf to accommodate 35 boats…

“We’ll take the risk, and then if you’re wildly successful, we get to ship all sorts of your product…”

“The ocean is the climate’s heart and circulatory system. Warming is a stress on the heart,” Aimee Bonnanno of the New England Aquarium told a crowd of 345 people, mostly scientists, who had gathered to try to understand the future of the Gulf of Maine in a hotter climate.

He’d talk about catching smelts as a child, back when the train came through Columbia Falls, and they’d pack the fish end-for-end in wooden boxes…

Eastport markets itself as “the deepest natural seaport in the continental United States.”

The allure of living on an island includes isolation from the rest of the world. The downside of living on an island includes isolation from the rest of the world. Especially when you need something on the mainland.

Greater access to mussels, oysters, scallops, and kelp can help reduce our dependence on imported seafood.

Temperature influences how much oxygen and carbon dioxide the water can hold, the rate of plant growth and decay, the movement of currents, and the geographic distribution of marine life.