PORTLAND — Maine regulators want to shut down several waterways to scallop fishing in the upcoming season as they continue attempts to rebuild the fishery. The news comes as Maine’s Department of Marine Resources is warning fishermen that the coming season will likely include emergency closures depending on the amount of scallops harvested. The season […]
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Survey project depends on volunteers
What do anglers like almost as much as catching fish? That’s an easy one: looking for fish. And so it is that, in its fourth year, the Brook Trout Survey Project has signed up 850 volunteers, of which more than 200 have actually made it into the field, surveying ponds where brook trout seem likely […]
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Panel finds Maine Legislature erred in passing laws on tribal fishing rights, calls parties back to negotiating table
BANGOR — The Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission released a report Friday in which it found the Maine Legislature circumvented the amendment process set forth in the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act when it passed laws on saltwater fishery matters without the consent of the Passamaquoddy Tribe in 1998, 2013 and 2014. The 41-page report examines […]
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High School Bass Fishing Championship
2014 SAF Maine High School State Championship will be held in Orrington for the first time. Brewer Lake will be the location. The state championship is a two-person team event for students in grades 9-12. Registration for anglers and their “coach,” who will provide the boat they compete in, is online at HighSchoolFishing.org. Check-in is […]
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Rules released to reduce whale entanglement
PORTLAND — Federal officials are releasing new regulations for commercial fishermen designed to reduce the number of whales caught in fishing gear off the Atlantic states. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released the regulations Thursday. NOAA officials say the measures focus on reducing the number of vertical lines in areas where whales are the […]
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Fishery council asking feds to increase haddock limit
PORTLAND — The New England Fishery Management Council is asking the federal government to consider allowing fishermen to catch more haddock in the Gulf of Maine this year. The council voted Wednesday to ask the National Marine Fisheries Service to raise the haddock catch limit for the 2014 fishing year. The fishing year began May 1 […]
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Outdoors in Maine: ‘Retriever’ a special fly
Trust me on this. I am not one to jump to the conclusion that a fly is a “killer fly” just because it happens to bring me a few fish to the boat. In fact, in all the years of writing about fishing, only a couple of flies that I can recall got any of […]
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Warden service finds body of fisherman
RAINBOW TOWNSHIP — The Maine Warden Service has recovered the body of a 60-year-old man who failed to contact his wife while he was alone on a fishing trip. Game wardens began searching for Roland Mayhew of Hampden after he didn’t call his wife on Wednesday, two days after he began a trip to local […]