The Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries (MCCF) has named Paul Anderson as its new executive director. Anderson will begin working at the Stonington nonprofit in September and will fully assume executive director duties Jan. 1.

In Maine, April is a flirt, flashing a warm, beckoning smile one day, and spitting snow the next.

We found a huge, gorgeous oak tree in a grassy clearing on the west end of the island and set up our tents under it.

Megan Grumbling’s Booker’s Point is a remarkable homage in verse to one Bernard A. Booker, 1922-2008, the “unofficial mayor of Ell Pond, Maine, and finder of gold in quartz.”

The overall value of rockweed, after it's been processed into retail products, is around $20 million per year…

“The last several surveys have been very disappointing, with below average recruitment.”

—Maggie Hunter of DMR

Some sources describe this walk as a dance, but I think it looks more like the bird is imitating a “low rider” car…

Maine shrimp from the research catches are available now and they are being snapped up by seafood wholesalers…

Kelp spores are introduced to a beaker or aquarium. String is then wrapped around a section of PVC pipe and the pipe is immersed in the water with the spores. The spores attach to the twine, and when they reach a certain size...