UMaine mentioned in Press Herald article on marine research funding approval
The Portland Press Herald reported the Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved funding increases to several federal programs critical to Maine’s coastal communities. The committee approved the fiscal year 2020 budget bill for the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Justice and related science agencies, including provisions to boost funding for the National Sea Grant program by $7 million to $75 million, with $2 million allocated to support research on lobsters and herring (which lobstermen use as bait), and how the rapid warming of the Gulf of Maine affects them, according to the article. This follows the $2 million awarded from Sea Grant’s fiscal year 2019 budget to lobster researchers at the University of Maine, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve and other institutions, the article states. Centralmaine.com also published the report.