Spectrum Generations Coastal, 521 Main Street in Damariscotta is hosting its weekly Lunch and Learn program on Wednesday, July 31 at 11:15 a.m.

During the week of July 15, the Boothbay Sea and Science Center’s community sailing program rolled out its first full week of sailing while enjoying some of Maine’s best summer weather.

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Ever want to know what makes the tides tick?

Or to see what they do to the plants and animals that call the tidal zone home?

Scientists at the Bigelow Laboratory Single Cell Genomics Center (SCGC) in East Boothbay are part of a groundbreaking effort to use DNA sequencing of genomes isolated from single…

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is inviting the public to the first summer open house on its new, LEED Platinum Ocean Science and Education Campus at 60 Bigelow Drive in East…

DeBasto Designs and Hodgdon Shipbuilding…

Bigelow Senior Research Scientist Dr. Beth Orcutt and John Skutnik, a research technician from her Deep Biosphere Laboratory are departing East Boothbay on a two-week oceanographic…

Rachael Miller's life changed forever when she took a vacation to Matinicus Island.  A nor’easter had washed piles of trash up along shoreline. Repulsed, Miller said she couldn't…

In keeping with his promise to continue an open line of communications with the lobster industry, Patrick Keliher, commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, will be…

Two bills signed by Gov. Paul R. LePage in the past week will help the Maine lobster industry take advantage of the recent historic abundance in the fishery.

A research team led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has discovered that marine microbes are adapted to very narrow and specialized niches in their environment. This may…

The National Weather Service in Gray has announced that strong thunderstorms are expected to develop in Boothbay Harbor, Wiscasset and surrounding towns this…

Gov. Paul LePage presented Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences with the Maine International Trade Center's (MITC) 2012 Innovator of the Year award during the 33rd annual Maine…

The Maine Marine Patrol would like to remind licensed Maine lobstermen that 2013 lobster trap tags are required to be in traps June 1, 2013. Marine Patrol will be enforcing this…

Local lobstermen are invited to attend an informational meeting on the proposed Maine Lobstering Union at the Dockside Grill restaurant at Cap'n Fish's Motel, Atlantic Avenue,…

When fellow clam diggers asked Wiscasset Shellfish Committee Chairman Donald James if they could work fewer hours seeding clams and doing other conservation work each year, he didn…

Scientists can't say for sure whether there will be a shrimp fishing season here in the Northeast next winter, but they will be discussing the matter at a meeting in Portland on…

Dr. Graham Shimmield, Executive Director and President of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, will be the guest speaker at Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission’s (LCPRC)…

With a $4 million Department of Energy grant and the approval of the Maine Public Utilities Commission in hand, Statoil is continuing with plans to build a floating pilot wind park…

Local worm diggers will petition the Maine Department of Marine Resources not to permit mud flat leasing.

A group of worm diggers met March 22 at…

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Northern Shrimp Section voted Friday to allow fishing seven days a week in both the trap and trawl fishery…

Gov. Paul R. LePage today announced that the iconic Maine lobster fishery has received the prestigious international Marine Stewardship Council’s Sustainable…

Sen. Chris Johnson (D-Lincoln) has been appointed as one of two members representing the Senate to the Lobster Management Policy Council for the 2013-2014 term…

Pending final accreditation from the federal Food and Drug Administration, Bigelow Laboratory will begin biotoxin testing for shellfish in the state of Maine…

Oyster farmers whose crops were significantly damaged by an outbreak of oyster disease are suing their insurance company for not covering the damage. Dodge Cove…

Recently issued 2012 reports for Maine’s commercially harvested marine resources reveal a 10 percent increase in pounds landed and a 20 percent increase in…

Pending final accreditation from the federal Food and Drug Administration, Bigelow Laboratory will begin biotoxin testing for shellfish in the state of Maine…

A brief, unvarnished rant by long-time lobsterman and fishery leader Dave Cousens closed out a session February 28 on ocean acidification at the Maine Fishermen's Forum. It drew applause, but…

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, which opened a 60,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art science and education campus on the East Boothbay waterfront last month, has achieved…

Access across private land to tidal flats and conservation are of top concern among Woolwich residents and shellfish harvesters. Marine biologists, concerned…

In response to continuing low catch rates and to improve flexibility and safety, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section has…

Boothbay Harbor fisherman Rusty Brewer is baiting and setting just a portion of his shrimp traps this week, knowing he is working with an even more limited…

Shrimp boats have been out to haul since the beginning of this year's season, January 22, but those who use traps to catch shrimp have had to wait until February 5, and may be facing further…

If the 22 percent cut in groundfish hauls two years ago was a blow to Maine's fishing industry, then the proposed 77 to 82 percent cut would be catastrophic,…

The Maine Department of Marine Resources will hold a Public Listening Session with shrimp trappers from 10 a.m. to noon on February 1 in Wiscasset at the…

Ice and sub-zero temperatures may keep harvesters from digging up clams this time of year, but Woolwich Shellfish Committee members are actively engaged in a…

Last summer’s crisis with the lobster fishery and the sudden appearance of squid on our coast were just two recent reminders that Maine’s coastal ocean…

Meetings hosted by the Maine Department of Marine Resources to discuss the state of the lobster industry Wednesday, Jan. 23 and Monday, Jan. 28 have been moved…

As of January 15, due to unseasonably warm temperatures and forecast for rain, the Bureau of Maine Marine Patrol and the Department of Marine Resources are…

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and the University of Mississippi have entered into a Strategic Inter-Institutional Partnership Agreement that creates a…

Woolwich Shellfish Conservation Committee chairman Dan Harrington isn't digging softshell clams this time of year, but he told selectmen at their January 7 meeting he bought a harvester's license…

As of January 3, 2013, reports to the Maine Department of Marine Resources indicate more than 123 million pounds of lobsters have been caught in 2012, an increase of approximately 18 million…

Despite a stalemate over a valve repair job at the Nequasset Lake Dam in Woolwich, work toward the restoration of the dam's attached fish ladder is moving forward.

Volunteers have been…

At six years old, Peter Fairfield hopped aboard his first lobster boat with dad Rex Collamore. Years later, when it came time to decide on a profession the choice was easy.
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A Maine Department of Marine Resources meeting scheduled for today, January 2, in Boothbay to discuss the state of the lobster industry has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 6 p.m. in the…

The Board of Directors of the Finance Authority of Maine (FAME) has approved financing for East Boothbay-based Hodgdon Shipbuilding, and two New Markets Capital Investment Program Tax Credit…

The shellfish industry in Woolwich is in dire straights, said Shellfish Committee member Andy Cromwell in his address to the Woolwich Board of Selectmen December 19. To keep it alive, he asked the…

A new, shorter shrimp season aims to fix a common problem across Maine's…

A week before Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Services opened its doors to Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the East Boothbay lab picked up a prestigious award.

During the December 14 open house,…

Two Maine offshore wind energy pilot projects were among the seven awarded up to $4 million in federal grants for engineering, design and permitting…