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New Operator to Manage Charles River, MA, Boathouse
Boston Globe: For decades, Charles River Canoe and Kayak has been moored to the state’s historic boathouse in Newton , offering paddling classes and renting equipment to scores of area families and boaters. But change is ahead. The company...
Body Found in Norwalk Harbor
TheHour.com: Norwalk Police are labeling the death of a 73-year-old city man whose body washed up Saturday morning at Veterans Memorial Park as “accidental.” Michael Cusick drowned Saturday morning after somehow falling in Norwalk Harbor while taking...
Oyster Illnesses Increase as More Oysters Eaten
CapeCodOnline: The state’s top shellfish biologist told shellfishermen gathered at Cape Cod Community College on Thursday night that they were victims of their own success. Oyster harvests have soared as the raw market expanded nationally over the...
Researchers to Track Singing Humpbacks in Northwest Atlantic
Northeast Fisheries Science Center: Male humpback whales sing complex songs in tropical waters during the winter breeding season, but they also sing at higher latitudes at other times of the year. NOAA researchers have provided the first detailed description...
Maine Joint Venture to Build NorseBoats
Four East Coast marine companies well known for innovation and quality have recently formed a joint venture. NorseBoat Limited, Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding, Hallett Canvas & Sails and Fawcett Designs are now collaborating to market, build and outfit the NorseBoat line...
New Hallville, CT, Fishway Dedicated
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) Deputy Commissioner Macky McCleary joined representatives of the Eastern Connecticut Conservation District (ECCD) and other partners on May 3, 2013, to dedicate the new Hallville Fishway, which will allow alewives and...
Nantucket Loran Tower Being Removed
Nantucket Inquirer & Mirror: The decommissioned Coast Guard 625’-tall LORAN tower in Sconset will be taken down piece by piece over the next week , as contractors disassemble what was once the longest continuously-operated LORAN station in the...
Brothers Charged with Elver Poaching
Portland Press Herald: New Hampshire Fish & Game officers have 2 men in custody and 2 buckets of baby eels as evidence of what they say is part of an international eel-poaching operation believed to be driven by a...
UMass Dartmouth Students Sample Trash Fish Meals
SouthCoastToday: UMass Dartmouth students sampled four seafood species often described as under-appreciated by conservation groups and which a Plymouth company is trying to bring into university dining halls. “They’re fish (that) consumers should know more. They’ve never really been...
Final Plank to be Installed on Morgan Whaleship
The final plank will be installed on the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan on Friday, May 10, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut. This plank is known as the “shutter” plank, as it “shuts...
