This year, the Casco Bay Regional Shellfish Working Group, the Maine Shellfish Learning Network and the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership are working to return the clamming fishery to the center of the festival. Read the Op-Ed here.
Yarmouth, Maine. CBEP is supporting the Casco Bay Regional Shellfish Working Group at this year’s Yarmouth Clam Festival! Read more about the festival here.
Friends of Casco Bay will begin testing for PFAS contamination in Casco Bay this year, in collaboration with the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. Story here.
Organizations conducting monitoring in the fresh and marine waters of Casco Bay and its watershed presented their findings from the 2022 monitoring season at the spring meeting of the Monitoring Network. The presentations are available here.
South Portland– The project would improve the ability for trout to pass through instead of being blocked at the barriers. Read the Portland Press Herald story here.
Portland, ME – The Gorham Middle School was one of nine groups recognized by the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership (CBEP) with a 2023 Casco Bay Community Grants award. Story here.
Marine Animals of Maine, based in Bath, was recently picked as one of Casco Bay Estuary Partnership’s 2023 Casco Bay Community Grants award recipients. Story here.
The Cape Elizabeth Land Trust has received a 2023 Casco Bay Community Grant for a middle school unit on birds. Story here.
The grants from Casco Bay Estuary Partnership will fund sustainable landscaping workshops in Cumberland and a nature backpack program in Falmouth. Story here.