A year after selectmen decided that charging commercial landing barge operators $5,000 a year to use the town’s facilities was too much, the Harbor Committee is again requesting the fee be increased to that amount.
A bill defining the intentional release of balloons as an act of littering is now law.
Federal fisheries managers are asking a federal court to end the ongoing litigation over the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
Increase in flooding could be devastating to the coastal communities in Hancock.
BAR HARBOR— A local leader in mussel farming and a pioneer in Maine’s young scallop industry has branched out to another species. The de Koning family, who run the Bar Harbor-based Acadia Aqua Farms, has taken over management of Warren Pettegrow’s 50-acre oyster farm in Goose Cove. The de Konings have a mussel farm in Frenchman Bay and have recently started experimenting …
A ban on offshore wind development in state waters has made it through the state Legislature and will head over to the desk of Gov. Janet Mills.
The state Department of Marine Resources is holding a public hearing next week to talk about a proposal to change the confidentiality of fisheries statistics.
More than three dozen lobstermen battled it out in Bass Harbor on June 27 as part of the annual lobster boat races.
American Aquafarms last week once again made a case for its $330 million project to raise Atlantic salmon in Frenchman Bay
For the first time in 40 years, tall ships and schooners will sail the waters of the Penobscot River to celebrate the state’s bicentennial.
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