The Portland Press-Herald is carrying the Associated Press story on the help Massachusetts fishermen facing the huge cut in the yellowtail flounder catch may get. Click for more. Print
The Portland Press-Herald is carrying the Associated Press story on the help Massachusetts fishermen facing the huge cut in the yellowtail flounder catch may get. Click for more. Print
Peter UnderwoodPhoto by Jeff Harper, courtesy of The Chronicle-Herald, Halifax, N.S. Nova Scotia Environmentalist Peter Christopher Underwood, a deputy minister in Nova Scotia, lifelong environmentalist and one of the founders of the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment, died after a short illness on March 26, 2012. He was born March...
Analysis by Kate Sampson Residents and visitors to the Gulf of Maine may be surprised to discover that the area is home to four sea turtle species in the spring, summer and fall. Three of these species, the green, Kemp’s ridley, and loggerhead, are hard-shelled sea turtles, meaning their shells are made up of...
Analysis by Pam DiBona “Those who can’t—teach.” This quote from H.L. Mencken still stings science educators, in part because the ability to teach science is an art unto itself, and not an easy task. One of the New England Ocean Science Education Collaborative’s (NEOSEC’s) operating principles is that scientists and educators both have something...
Analysis by Slade Moore Biological Conservation The issue As our understanding of aquatic systems matures, we’re finding that the connections between our ponds, streams and upland areas are much more than incidental. In fact, the chemical, physical, and biological linkages between these systems are often very important to their character, including their...
The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World by Carl Safina Henry Holt and Co., New York, NY. $32.00, hardcover, 416 pages, ISBN 978-0-8050-9040-6 (2011). Picador, New York, NY. $18.00, paperback, 416 pages, ISBN 978-1-250-00271-6 (2012). Reviewed by Lee Bumsted With a title like The View from Lazy Point:...
