PEMBROKE (AP) – Harvests of a seaweed that clings to rocks is stirring opposition and a call for a moratorium along the coast Down East.
A Canadian company has been harvesting rockweed in Cobscook Bay, which is also the site of commercial fisheries including scallops, clams and lobsters. Critics see rockweed harvests as a threat to a fragile habitat.
Robin Hadlock Seeley, a researcher for the Shoals Marine Laboratory of Cornell University, said the rockweed harvesting alters a habitat that’s important to other commercial fisheries.
Seeley and others have formed a coalition that wants a one- or two-year moratorium to stop industrial-scale harvesting of rockweed and figure out what regulations would make the most sense for Cobscook Bay.
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