Casco Bay News

The Casco Bay Estuary Partnership Equity Strategy is available for download. The purpose of the equity strategy is to ensure that CBEP is reviewing potential projects that use Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funds through the lens of equitable and fair access to the benefits from environmental programs for all communities. This equity strategy outlines how

CBEP is accepting applications for the 2024 Casco Bay Community Grants Program. For more information, and to apply, check out our Grants Page.

See all the good work that the Partnership completed in 2023! Take a look at our annual report here.

Grant Opportunities

Ninety percent of bridges and culverts on the roads in Maine that cross salt marshes and tidal waterways are not equipped to handle the ebb and flow of the tides. This results in higher road maintenance costs, a shortened lifespan for culverts and bridges, unplanned road closures that can put public well-being and safety at

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.