BREWER (AP) — A public hearing on plans to cut Maine’s lucrative glass eel catch has been delayed by weather — again. About 150 people attended the first hearing last month in Augusta. The second meeting was postponed because of bad weather until Thursday in Brewer. The Maine Department of Marine Resources announced Thursday that’s […]
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Scallop prices strong as season opens in Maine
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine scallop fishermen kicked off their season Monday with some of the highest per-pound prices ever seen, helping to offset harvesting restrictions put in place to better manage the fishery, a state official said. Fishermen in the scallop-rich waters of Cobscook Bay near the Canadian border were being paid $12 to $13 […]
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Maine’s scallop fishing season starts
PORTLAND — Maine scallop fishermen are kicking off a season that’ll last 70 days along most of the coast. But fishermen in the scallop-rich waters of Cobscook Bay along the Canadian border in far eastern Maine will be limited to a 50-day season. The season opened Monday in three zones from Kittery to Lubec. Maine’s […]
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Maine biologists seek data on trout population
FAIRFIELD — The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is preparing to release some 2,000 brown trout into the Kennebec River as part of a study of trout populations in a stretch of the waterway. The Morning Sentinel reports that state biologists asked for input from local fishermen during a meeting in Fairfield on […]
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Tests show Lake Auburn free of algae bloom
AUBURN — Last summer’s fish-killing algae bloom has not returned to Lake Auburn this year, according to water quality officials. “We hope it never happens again. But if it does, we want to be ahead of it,” said Water Quality Manager Mary Jane Dillingham. She’s in charge of water quality testing for the Auburn Water […]
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Report warns climate change could hurt fishing
A warming planet could have dire results for those who enjoy freshwater fishing, according to a National Wildlife Federation report that was released on Wednesday, and a leading Maine outdoor advocate worries that climate change may eventually cost the state its iconic brook trout population. Changes in habitat and ecosystems and severe weather events are […]
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Mt. Blue Youth football sign-ups Sign-ups for Mt. Blue Area Youth Football will be held on Aug. 11 (seventh & eighth grade, 12 to 2 p.m.; fifth and sixth grade, 2 to 4 p.m. and third and fourth grade 4 to 6 p.m.). MBAYF third through 6th grade play in the Sandy Andy Football League […]
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Plan to reopen New England fishing spots debated
BOSTON (AP) — A plan to allow certain New England fishermen back into fishing grounds where they’ve long been banned was so objectionable to environmentalists that two groups sued to kill it months before it was officially released. And after the proposal was unveiled last week, fishermen who once backed the idea called the plan […]