A study finds levels of methylmercury in the bodies tuna caught in the gulf between 2004 and 2012 decreased at a rate of 2 percent a year, or nearly 20 percent over a decade.
Gulf of Maine
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Effort to protect deep-sea coral has lobster industry on alert
Two rich lobstering areas could be closed if regulators prohibit all fishing in rare Down East habitats.
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A healthy Gulf of Maine goes with the flow of a restored Royal River
It is essential to rebuild the population of herring, which multiple species depend upon to thrive.
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Commission likely to keep Gulf of Maine shrimp fishery closed
A Portland processor says that would hurt, but regulators appear to favor more time for the population to rebuild.
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Maine Voices: Arctic opportunities exist in Maine right now
Establishing relationships with the people who live in the north is more important than new shipping lanes.
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More fishing gear entanglements jeopardize right whale’s recovery
The journal Frontiers in Marine Science says the number of baby right whales has steeply declined since 2010.
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Puffin chicks in Gulf of Maine’s largest colony starve to death at record rate
A drop in the food supply this summer, possibly tied to warmer Gulf of Maine waters, leads to the worst survival rate ever tracked on Machias Seal Island.
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Moratorium sought on supertankers carrying ‘tar sands’ oil in U.S. waters
TransCanada’s plan to pipe the heavy crude to Saint John for shipping down the East Coast raises spill concerns in Maine and elsewhere.
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A new device is helping Maine fishermen avoid protected cod
The Nature Conservancy provides new technology that helps avoid unwanted by-catches of the threatened groundfish species.
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Vessel strike blamed for death of whale calf off Cape Cod
The nearly 30-foot long, roughly 10,000-pound whale was found dead on May 5.