Back in October, Maine’s fishing future received a significant boost when U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King, alongside Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden, announced over $2 million in grant funding for workforce development.

An Arctic front has arrived in Maine, triggering snow squalls moving north to south. Brief whiteouts are possible along with wind gusts up to 35 mph. The National Weather Service has issued a snow squall warning for the southern Maine coast,

Federal lawmakers from the U.S. state of Florida have introduced legislation to block NOAA Fisheries from closing the recreational South Atlantic red snapper fishery for three months of the year.

The U.S. government has signed a legal agreement to settle a lawsuit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), and the Animal Welfare Institute demanding regulators block imports from foreign fisheries that are not adequately protecting marine mammals.

The tax and fee changes that Gov. Janet Mills put forward last week in her budget only add up to about $150 million in a two-year state spending plan that tops $11.6 billion. But new taxes and fees are always controversial,

MAINE, USA — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has withdrawn a proposed regulation intended to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from vessel strikes. The decision has left conservationists and Maine’s lobster industry expressing disappointment, though for different reasons.

The proposed rules would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters in an attempt to save the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

In his message, Kehiler warned lobstermen that any entanglements linked to Maine fishing gear could lead to further restrictions on commercial fishing operations to protect the whales. Most recently, a dead right whale found off the coast of Massachusetts in January 2024 was found to have been entangled in Maine fishing gear.

The U.S. state of Alaska has forecast an “excellent” sockeye salmon run for the state’s Upper Cook Inlet fishery, but forecasts for the state’s other salmon runs are mixed so far. State officials forecast a total run of 6.9 million sockeye for the Upper Cook Inlet in 2025, with roughly 4.93 million fish available for harvest.

While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the Navy was quietly conducting a series of tests to see if humans could live and work on the deep seafloor.

The experimental shrimp season, scheduled to begin in February, is part of a research initiative by the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) in collaboration with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries ... Tetrault II of Portland—while three, Adam ...

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released a new global assessment outlining a path toward a sustainable future. Dr. Kanae Tokunaga of the Gulf of Maine Institute was one of two experts from the U.