When you work on the water for many decades, you see changes. At least, that has been the experience of Gregory Thompson, of Dipper Harbour, New Brunswick.
When you work on the water for many decades, you see changes. At least, that has been the experience of Gregory Thompson, of Dipper Harbour, New Brunswick.
Who better to research and publish a book entitled Coastal Fish of Southern Maine & New Hampshire than the Wells Reserve and Laudholm Trust? Staff members and volunteers at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve in Wells, Maine, have been studying the region’s fish populations since 1992.
At first glance, plastic bathtub toys, Nike sneakers and messages in bottles might not appear to have much in common. Yet oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer recognized a chance to use them all as drift markers and educational tools. He derives valuable data about how ocean currents circulate based on where and when such flotsam, or...
This is the first online-only edition of the Gulf of Maine Times. Everyone concerned with the publication is grateful for the support shown to the Times by its faithful readers in these tough economic times.
They come up suddenly sometimes, with their distinctive V-shaped blow, lumbering in open-ocean brine like water-bound elephants. The North Atlantic right whale is a voluminous creature, a fact easily forgotten as often only their rostrum—upper jaw—is visible when they surface. So it might seem amazing that these huge creatures specialize in a specific, diminutive...
