News this week is about ocean acidity, smelt populations, ‘ghost fishing gear’, the Nequasset Fish Ladder, and Jeremy Bell from the Nature Conservancy. Click on the title of this post (Casco Bay News Roundup) to access links to the stories. April 30 Casco Bay study links ocean acidity, declining clam numbers (Bangor Daily News) May … Read more
News this week is about the Maine Conservation Corp, shrimp, stream crossings, sea level rise, scallops, piping plovers, puffins, and climate change. Click on the title of this post (Casco Bay News Roundup) to access links to the stories. March 28 Maine Conservation Corp looking for new members (Fosters Daily Democrat) March 29 Future of … Read more
News this week is about the restoration of Long Creek (featuring our director, Curtis Bohlen), Trout Brook, elvers, herring, Maine Island Trail, a new species of sea worm, land bonds, how climate change is transforming New England plants, and Friends of Casco Bay. Click on the title of this post (Casco Bay News Roundup) to … Read more
News this week is about stormwater, aquaculture, fisheries, Elvers, habitat restoration, solar power, and conservation. Click on the title of this post (Casco Bay News Roundup) to access links to the stories. October 24 Public invited to see historic coastal Biddeford estate (Portland Press Herald) Feds close part of Gulf of Maine herring fishery (WCSH6) … Read more
News this week is about climate change, the Gosling Islands, invasive insects, Bigelow Preserve, banning microbeads, Deering Oaks Park, and the Friends of Casco Bay’s event “Casco Bay at Risk”. Click on the title of this post (Casco Bay News Roundup) to access links to the stories. September 19 Taking care of 36,000 acres no … Read more
News this week is about Trout Brook restoration, Portland Trails conservation, harvesting scallops in Maine, Green Crabs, seaweed, tar sands, rain barrels and flash flooding in Portland . Click on the title of this post (Casco Bay News Roundup) to access links to the stories. August 13 Portland Trails preserves 20 acres in Falmouth (Portland … Read more
Casco Bay news over the past couple of weeks includes stories about the rise in the number of jellyfish, Fluoride, conservation, oil exploration, phytoplankton, fisheries, Alewives, climate change, Green Crabs, ocean acidification, and shorebird habitat. Click on the title of this post (Casco Bay News Roundup) to access links to the stories. July 16 As … Read more
Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and Friends of Casco Bay collaborated on a project to survey Casco Bay’s eelgrass coverage during the summer of 2013. The study compared new aerial photos taken at low tide with data from 1993 and 2001. The 2013 eelgrass coverage data shows huge losses, particularly … Read more