Dan Mathers
Dan Mathers is a freelance writer and publisher of the online New England outdoors site SixStates.net. He is a former associate editor for Offshore magazine, and his work has been published in Cape Cod Life, South Shore Living and Adirondack Life. For more information, visit danmathers.com.
Mass Audubon Acquires North River Watershed Parcel
Mass Audubon has raised enough funds to conserve the 31-acre Spring Street Woodlands property in Marshfield, Massachusetts, officially adding it to North River Wildlife Sanctuary. Spring Street Woodlands, owned by the Hale family, was the largest parcel of unprotected...
Survey of Northeast Pelagic Zone Completed
The Northeast Fisheries Science Center reports that researchers have completed the first comprehensive survey of the upper waters of the continental shelf off the Northeast U.S., from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to the Nova Scotia Shelf, including Georges Bank...
Research Grants to Improve LI Sound Water Quality
The Sea Grant programs of Connecticut and New York, with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Long Island Sound Study program, have announced they will fund research grants that will help efforts to improve water quality and adapt to climate...
States to Hold Hearings on American Eel
Atlantic coastal states from Maine through Georgia have scheduled their hearings to gather public comment on Draft Addendum III to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for American Eel. The Draft Addendum proposes a wide range of management options with...
Waterway Guide Features Sandy Updates
Snowbirds returning north, cruisers on the Great Loop and other boaters can now access current, updated information about marinas, facilities, and inlets along the storm-affected coast of New Jersey and New York. Over 200 marinas and other facilities have...
Shellfisheries Reopen at Georges Bank
NOAA.GOV: Something good is happening at Georges Bank, a large area off the coast of Massachusetts that separates the Gulf of Maine from the Atlantic Ocean: After 22 years, some 6,000 square miles of the sea floor recently reopened...
Enjoy Learning About & Eating Quahogs
If you love quahogs, you can learn about them and then enjoy a meal of them from the Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen’s Association on Tuesday, March 26 at 5:30 p.m. To get a feel for harvesting quahogs (also...
Canoeists Plan to Paddle Across Rhode Island
It’s a journey that harkens back to the Age of Exploration. Three adventure-minded paddlers plan to canoe the length of Rhode Island this summer, traveling from Burrillville in the north down to Westerly on the coast. Chuck Horbert, 45,...
Report Illustrates Economic Importance of Fishing
An economic report on commercial and recreational saltwater fishing by NOAA’s Fisheries Service highlights the importance of fishing to the New England economy. According to the report, which examined fishing’s economic impact in the country in 2011, Massachusetts was...
Tugboat Spills Oil in Buzzards Bay; Closes Canal
A unified team of federal, state and port partners are responding to an oil sheen in Buzzards Bay after a tugboat grounded near the Stony Point Dyke in Wareham, Massachusetts, just after midnight. Investigators from Coast Guard Sector Southeastern...
