The New England Fishery Management Council has scheduled scoping hearings to gather information and ask for suggestions about the range of issues that should be addressed by the NEFMC and possibly included in its Northeast Multispecies (Groundfish) Management Plan....
A depiction of the Bass Harbor Lighthouse will be the featured image on the Acadia National Park quarter, the 13th coin to be issued in the United States Mint’s America the Beautiful Quarters program. The lighthouse will appear on the “tail” side of the 2012-dated...
A bright light on a dark night, Papa’s Man was tied up to a pier at Dysart’s Great Harbor Marina early this week, a hub of activity on still waters under a waning moon. Skipper and crew had just returned from a day of harvesting sea cucumbers, known colloquially as...
The federal government’s 2010 update of the Coast Guard Authorization Act includes new requirements for commercial fishing industry vessels that are currently in the implementation phase by the Office of Vessel Activities, a department within the U.S. Coast Guard’s...
Mayor Scott Lang of New Bedford, Mass., recently decried what he characterized as a climate of fear around the decision-making process for managing the Northeast groundfish fishery. In speaking to the New England Fisheries Management Council at its mid-November...
