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Feds Ease Monkfish Catch Limits
SouthCoastToday: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Northeast office Wednesday announced it is easing limits on some monkfishing to partially make up for the severe loss of quota on groundfish stocks. Depending on the permit category,...
Budget Cuts May Affect Providence WaterFire Events
Boston.com reports that Providence’s public art display, WaterFire, may be in jeopardy due to automatic federal budget cuts. The problem has to do with the ongoing practice of maintaining water levels on the Providence River—which needs dredging—by closing the...
Crowd-Funding to Replace Damaged Boat Used by Marathon Bomber
New Haven Register: A social media campaign to raise money to repair the pleasure craft of Dave Henneberry, the Boston-area man who found one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects hiding in his vessel, has raised a boatload of...
Maine Supports Bill to Let Draggers to Keep Lobsters
Bangor Daily News: Though a similar proposal was roundly rejected in 2007, a bill that would allow lobsters caught in drag nets to be kept and sold in Maine is back before the Legislature. Like the last time around,...
Old Lyme Drawbridge Experiencing Mechanical Problems
The Connecticut Marine Trades Association reports that the Old Lyme drawbridge was experiencing mechanical issues as of 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 24, 2013, just a day after it was announced that the bridge was fully back in service following...
Brown U. Crew Team Finds Body in Narragansett Bay
Police are investigating after a body of a 20- to 30-year-old man was pulled from the water at India Point Park on Tuesday afternoon, April 23, after being discovered in the water by the Brown University Crew team. The...
Repairing the Mayflower II
Finding the Mayflower II as she sat in dry dock at the Fairhaven Shipyard was pretty easy—I just had to look for the old-fashioned crows nests jutting above the houses and buildings of the port. Inside the yard, I...
Body Found on Bailey Island, ME
Kennebec Journal: The state medical examiner has ruled that the man found dead last week on Bailey Island drowned. The body of 28-year-old Ryan Johnson of Harpswell was found on the shore by a fisherman last Thursday morning...
Pope’s Island Marina Open House This Weekend
Pope’s Island Marina in New Bedford will hold an Open House this Sunday, April 28, 2013, from noon to 4:00 p.m. Take a break from working on your boat and see all that the marina has to offer both...
Maine Lobstermen Concerned Over Warmer Waters
Portland Press Herald: Ocean temperatures have been higher than normal in the Gulf of Maine, creating worries among lobstermen that there could be a repeat of last spring’s early harvest that resulted in a market glut, a crash in...
