Marine Sciences

Pellowe, Leslie: Fishermen adapt to environmental change in varied ways

Regulations and financial resources that influence how people fish have as great an effect on how they deal with change as where and how they fish, found University of Maine Darling Marine Center researchers Kara Pellowe and Heather Leslie. The ecologists examined how fishermen adapt to environmental and economic change in Baja California Sur, Mexico.  […]

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Boothbay Register publishes DMC release on Damariscotta River shellfish study

The Boothbay Register published a University of Maine Darling Marine Center release about a new study of shellfish in the Damariscotta River. The study was led by Kara Pellowe and supported by a grant from the Broad Reach Fund. Researchers counted soft-shell clams, quahogs, razor clams, mussels and oysters living in the intertidal flats managed […]

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Lincoln County News reports on Semester by the Sea presentations

The Lincoln County News reported on end-of-semester presentations by students in the University of Maine’s Semester by the Sea program at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Five groups of undergraduate students in an estuarine oceanography course explored why the Damariscotta River is known for the quality, size and quantity of its oysters. Each group […]

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Fish Farmer cites UMaine in article about oral vaccine for sea lice

The University of Maine was mentioned in a Fish Farmer magazine article about an oral vaccine being developed for sea lice by a team of Scottish and international aquaculture experts. Sea lice are estimated to cost the Atlantic salmon production industry about $550 million a year. The new approach will use advanced nanoparticle technology to […]

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UMaine-led studies cited in story about Blue Hill lobsterman 

The Bangor Daily News cited two University of Maine-led studies that indicate warming waters off Maine have changed the dynamics of the lobster population in its story about Jeremy Tyler. The Blue Hill lobsterman is developing a “Plan B” for his economic livelihood that includes opening a coffee and sandwich shop to sell baked goods […]

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DMC partnership

Maine-eDNA an opportunity for DMC, Bigelow to collaborate, find solutions

The University of Maine Darling Marine Center and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences are pooling their expertise and resources for the Maine-eDNA initiative. Researchers on both sides of the Damariscotta River will be ocean forensic scientists as they track the health of Maine’s fisheries and coastal ecosystems and seek solutions for challenges. More information […]

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Maine Public interviews Wahle about new lobster studies

Maine Public interviewed Rick Wahle, a research professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences and director of the Lobster Institute at UMaine, about two new studies of lobsters along the northeastern Atlantic coast. Wahle is an author of both studies, which look at possible reasons for the dramatic rise in Gulf of […]

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