The latest article in the Portland Press Herald’s “Green Plate Special” column featured efforts to develop a culinary use for the invasive European green crab. The research, led by Marissa McMahan of Northeastern University and supported by the Maine Sea Grant program at the University of Maine, is identifying the timing and process of the […]
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The Associated Press reported the Maine Sea Grant program at the University of Maine will receive more than $500,000 — the remainder of its FY17 funds — to support research and education. Maine’s U.S. senators said the grants are coming from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and also will help with outreach efforts on […]
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Maine Sea Grant is working with the town of Penobscot, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, The Nature Conservancy, NOAA, and others on several fish passage projects in the watershed of the Bagaduce River, a tributary of Penobscot Bay. Construction of new fishways at Pierce and Wight ponds, scheduled to begin this summer, will improve fish passage, […]
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Maine Sea Grant has started a new collaboration with The Working Waterfront newspaper, published monthly by the Rockland, Maine-based Island Institute. The “Estuary Beat” column provides short updates on science and environment news, research and events in Maine’s coastal rivers, bays and harbors. Written by Catherine Schmitt, Sea Grant communications director, the goal of the […]
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Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine was mentioned in a Scarborough Leader article about invasive red algae on Pine Point Beach. Last summer, residents of the beach community asked the town council to ramp up the amount of times the beach is raked and cleaned in order to remove the red algae, Heterosiphonia […]
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