“All these folks in the tourism industry want you. You represent that quintessential experience,” said Natalie Springuel of Maine Sea Grant.

On handling, he said fishermen should treat the lobster like an egg: “One hand, one lobster.”

Hannaford is picking up Maine-raised salmon and delivering the fish directly to its supermarket seafood…

One of the most fertile markets for Maine-made products is flourishing nearly 7,000 miles away. New prosperity and a growing middle class in China has created unprecedented demand for lobster and other Maine-made products

Islands desperately need such young professionals to be able live and work close to home, so the case was made for the value of such investment in the digital future.

Anyone who has sat in a car at the traffic logjam that Route 1 in Wiscasset becomes in summer will be interested in the state Department of Transportation’s plans to improve traffic flow.

At their town meeting on March 7, Stonington residents voted to reject a proposal to purchase the Bragdon-Kelley Funeral Home property on Thurlow’s Hill for $250,000. The property would have added about 25 parking spaces in town for the many tourists who flock to the area each summer.

What group could most effectively “get through to people” about the impacts a changing climate is having on the marine environment? “I think fishermen are reliable observers of the environment,” said John Bullard.

Maine fishermen harvested 121 million pounds of lobster in 2015 that brought them more than $500 million in sales, the Department of Marine Resources (DMR) announced Thursday, March 3.