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Penobscot River Restoration, Catherine Schmitt
Penobscot River Restoration, Catherine Schmitt
Maine Sea Grant Publications
BETWEEN THE HEAD of tide above Bangor to where it widens into the bay at Searsport, the Penobscot River shifts from a flowing freshwater waterway banked by cedar and pine to a brackish, wave-lapped marsh with a rocky shoreline. In this estuary, salt concentrations fluctuate as the winds and tides push sea water and sediments back and forth. The estuary and the river that feeds it have taken on a new character recently, and have become an international example of watershed restoration. Despite two centuries of intensive timber harvesting and pulp and paper manufacturing, and the construction of hundreds of …
Connecting Rivers For Healthy Ocean Fisheries, Catherine Schmitt
Connecting Rivers For Healthy Ocean Fisheries, Catherine Schmitt
Maine Sea Grant Publications
Across Maine, communities and land owners are reconnecting rivers and streams by improving road crossings, fixing broken culverts, and removing dams and other barriers. There are many reasons for doing this work, including preventing costly repairs associated with flooding and washouts, enhancing water quality, increasing wildlife habitat, and restoring fish populations. Connecting Rivers explores some of the ways that streams connect inland lakes and forests and the sea. This first fact sheet in the series focuses on connections between populations of migratory river fish (alewives and blueback herring) and groundfish (e.g., cod).
Proceedings Of The Us And Canada Scallop Science Summit: St. Andrews, New Brunswick, May 6–8, 2014, Skylar Bayer, Trisha Cheney, Carla Guenther, J. A. Sameoto
Proceedings Of The Us And Canada Scallop Science Summit: St. Andrews, New Brunswick, May 6–8, 2014, Skylar Bayer, Trisha Cheney, Carla Guenther, J. A. Sameoto
Maine Sea Grant Publications
A council of stakeholders ranging from fishermen, to scientists, and fisheries managers from both Canada and the United States convened on May 6, 7, and 8, 2014 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick to review and discuss the most recent scientific information relevant to the sea scallop fisheries and aquaculture efforts in the US and Canada. The US and Canada Scallop Summit aimed to strengthen and broaden the knowledge base in the scallop fisheries, with a focus on the nearshore fisheries in the Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy, as well as aquaculture efforts, and develop research priorities that aim …