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Maine’S Potential To Be A Global Leader In Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting And Management, Hannah M. Webber, Stefan Claesson, Shep Erhart, Catherine V. Schmitt, Jessica F. Muhlin

Maine Policy Review

A multitude of macroalgae (i.e., seaweed) species that are harvested in Maine are economically and ecologically important. Currently, management of these resources in Maine is focused on rockweed (Ascophyllum nodosum). This seaweed grows in abundance along intertidal rocky shores and provides a number of benefits including serving as habitat and nursery for many species including fin-fish, coastal protection from storms and sea level rise, carbon sequestration, and is a harvestable natural resource used primarily in fertilizer and animal feed production. It is critical that these functions and benefits are maintained and harvesting activities managed to ensure a sustainable …

Maine-Edna: Sustaining Coastal Ecosystems In Maine And Beyond, Maine Epscor

General University of Maine Publications

Maine Environmental DNA (Maine-eDNA) is a statewide, multi-institutional initiative establishing Maine as a natural leader in environmental monitoring, ecological understanding and sustainability of coastal ecosystems through research, education, and outreach.

A Look Into Millstone Nuclear Power Plant: Attitudes On Sustainability And Prevalence Of Epizootic Shell Disease, Emily Craig

Honors College

Epizootic Shell Disease in Homarus americanus

American lobster populations along the northeastern U.S. coast have been experiencing increased prevalence of Epizootic Shell Disease (ESD) over the past two decades. Several reports have correlated this increase with warmer water temperatures. My thesis examined the distribution of diseased lobsters surrounding Millstone Nuclear Power Station (MPS) in Long Island Sound. Lobsters in this area have seen a rise in Epizootic Shell Disease (ESD) that parallels the broader trends. To determine if the thermal plume from MPS had a local effect on ESD prevalence, the spatial distribution of diseased lobsters was analyzed at three …

Can Ecosystem-Based Deep-Sea Fishing Be Sustained?, Les Watling, R L. Haedrich, J Devine, J Drazen, M R. Dunn, M Gianni, K Baker, G Cailliet, I Figueiredo, P M. Kyne, G Menezes, F Neat, A Orlov, P Duran, J A. Perez, J A. Ardon, J Bezaury, C Revenga, C Nouvian

Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Can there ever be a truly sustainable deep-sea fishery and if

so, where and under what conditions? Ecosystembased

fisheries management requires that this question be

addressed such that habitat, bycatch species, and targeted

fish populations are considered together within an ecosystem

context.

To this end, we convened the first workshop to develop an

ecosystem approach to deep-sea fisheries and to ask whether

deep-sea species could be fished sustainably. The workshop

participants were able to integrate bycatch information into

their framework but found it more difficult to integrate other

ecosystem indicators such as habitat characteristics.

(First two paragraphs from the Executive …