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Maine’s First Boating License Law Would Go into Effect in 2024

4/20/2022 - By Samantha Hogan. Most boaters under age 25 will be required to pass an education and safety course before January 2024 to operate on Maine’s lakes and rivers because of a bill passed by the state Legislature this year. Maine is an outlier among states by currently not requiring boating… SEE MORE

Lobstermen to Get Federal Help to Comply with Whale Rules

3/15/2022 - PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A funding package approved by federal lawmakers includes more than $17 million to help the lobster fishing industry adjust to new rules designed to protect rare whales. The money is part of the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill passed by Congress on Thursday. It includes… SEE MORE

Warmer Maine Winters Raise New Concerns

3/14/2022 - By Peter McGuire. Mainers are no strangers to winter road hazards. Bad weather brings dangerous driving conditions. Rock salt eats up undercarriages and metal infrastructure. Springtime thaws bring frost heaves and potholes. For generations, those headaches were at least fairly predictable. But as global climate change warms the state’s winters,… SEE MORE

A Lobsterman Caught a 1-in-100-million ‘Cotton Candy’ Lobster

11/19/2021 - By Kelly B. Gormly. Billy Coppersmith has been a lobster fisherman for about four decades, and he thought he’d possibly seen everything there was to see along the coast of Maine. But when he reeled in a trap one afternoon this month as he was sailing in Casco Bay near… SEE MORE

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Nothing Funny About Bad Year for Maine’s Clownish Puffins

10/18/2021 - By Patrick Whittle. PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s beloved puffins suffered one of their worst years for reproduction in decades this summer due to a lack of the small fish they eat. Puffins are seabirds with colorful beaks that nest on four small islands off the coast of Maine. There… SEE MORE

Harbormaster Profile: Kathy Given of Belfast, Maine

10/8/2021 - Kathy Given, Belfast Harbormaster, has been working on the water in Maine for almost 28 years. We hope you will join us today at 4PM EST as we celebrate hardworking harbormasters across the country. [video width="1080" height="1920" mp4="https://www.usharbors.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/KathyGiven_Belfast.mp4"][/video] https://www.usharbors.com/2021/10/celebrate-national-harbormaster-appreciation-day-live-on-october-8th-with-us-harbors/ SEE MORE

US Harbors Launches Tide Station Pilot Project in Penobscot Bay, ME

9/10/2021 - Hyper-local Stations to Provide Real-Time, Observational Data on Sea-Levels for 5 Coastal Towns Rockland, Maine -- US Harbors, in partnership with Divirod, a data and technology company, is launching a pilot program in Penobscot Bay, ME to test a new technology for water-level sensing. NOAA currently maintains 200 live, observational tide… SEE MORE

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Storm Heavily Damages Carriage Roads at Acadia National Park

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6/16/2021 - BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — The beloved carriage roads at Acadia National Park suffered heavy damage from a severe recent rainstorm, the National Park Service said Monday. The rainstorm hit Bar Harbor in the early hours of June 9. The park service said 10 miles (16 kilometers) of the 45-mile… SEE MORE

Rare Yellow Lobster Caught off Maine Coast

2/5/2021 - By Rosemary Lausier. A Tenants Harbor lobsterman recently made an unusual discovery when a yellow lobster was caught in their net. Marly Babb decided to keep the crustacean and donate her to the University of New England’s Marine Science Center, who then named her Banana for her yellowish hue, the… SEE MORE

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Virginia Oliver – The Lobster Lady

9/30/2020 - By Wendy Mitman Clarke. At daybreak, rumbling through a greasy little swell, the 30-foot Virginia makes her way from Rockland, Maine, for the lobster grounds. Backlit by the chartplotter’s glow the helmsman is steady at the wheel, while behind him, a small, almost Yoda-like figure hunches over the sorting table readying bait.… SEE MORE

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