Preliminary results from the latest Gulf of Maine cod stock assessment indicated the stock is overfished and overfishing is occurring, according to information recently released by the Northeast Regional Office of the National Marine Fisheries Service. The NMFS said...
The Sea Urchin Zone Council has agreed to help to draft a fishery management plan for the state’s sea urchin fishery. Council chairman Bill Sutter said it would be a good idea for the industry to get onboard with the idea of drafting a plan, because otherwise the...
At a meeting of the Sea Urchin Zone Council earlier this month, some Zone 1 harvesters said they should be able to fish more than the 10 days they have been assigned each year since 2004. The harvesters said that scientists and managers with the state Department of...
Sales totals for the Mount Desert Island area plummeted drastically in November, according to statistics recently released by the state Bureau of Revenue Services. The downward trend was also apparent at the state and county levels, though not as drastically as in the...
Elected officials, postal employees and members of the public packed the conference room at Jeff’s Catering in Brewer Jan. 11 for a public forum on a United States Postal Service proposed plan to close more than half of the nation’s mail processing facilities,...
