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The 55' Maine schooner Eleanor had hull damage after colliding with a fishing vessel off Kennebunkport Maine, June 19 but was able to return under power, local fire officials reported. Schooner Eleanor photo.

Maine schooner, fishing vessel collide off Kennebunkport

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At Boothbay June 14, in Diesel Class E, 336 to 435 h.p., 24 to 33 feet, Audrey May (Holland 32, 425 Cummins, at right) took 1st place at 39.5 mph. Guilty Pleasure (Mitchell Cove 32, 380-hp Cummins) took third. Jon Johansen photo.

Michael_Crowley

Maine’s 2025 lobster boat race season kicks off

Michael Crowley

Dock in Cutler, Maine. Photo by Jon Bilous / Shutterstock

Maine enacts new law to promote working waterfronts

Carli Clancy

A tribute to a Brant Rock lobsterman

Carli Clancy

Devyn Campbell’s crew gets ready to sort a tow of grey sole, monk fish, dab, haddock, and other flats and groundfish. Using knowledge and charts passed on to him by old timers, Campbell makes a living fishing the waters off the coast of Maine. Photo by De

Dragging tradition in a wooden hull

Paul Molyneaux

The Thialf, a 661’x290’ semi-submersible crane vessel, operated by Netherlands-based Heerema Marine Contractors under the Panamanian flag, is underway to install turbine towers on the Equinor lease. Heerema photo.

Empire Wind opponents sue Trump administration, Equinor to stop work again

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Portland Shipyard’s 330-ton travellift launching a passenger vessel, and the stern of a schooner in the foreground, offer a glimpse of the many types of vessels in the yard, including a wide array of commercial fishing boats. Photo by Paul Molyneaux

Portland shipyard: Preserving a working waterfront

Paul Molyneaux

Fishing vessels in slips at a Portland, Maine, dock. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Cooler waters ahead for Gulf of Maine

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2017 0125 AtlanticCod groundfish — Atlantic cod. NOAA photo.

Commerce rejects New England council’s cod amendment

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Photo courtesy of the What's Going On in Rhode Island Facebook page

Injured Rhode Island lobsterman sues state over wharf collapse

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Striped bass, also known as rockfish in the Chesapeake Bay region. Joan Smedinghoff photo/Chesapeake Bay Program.

Charter fishing captains sue to overturn striped bass regulations

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