September 3, 2010 | Incorporating the Inter-Island News

Marine: Online Exclusives

From the Town Landing: A close call for the Gulf of Maine

by Anne Hayden and Philip Conkling

The enormous impact of the spill from this one well, one of 4,000 in the Gulf of Mexico, makes clear the threat that our oil addiction poses to fishermen and others who depend on healthy marine ecosystems to make their living.

Marine: In This Issue

ARTICLE

Where are the herring?

by Melissa Waterman

Landings of herring from inshore waters known as Area 1A are dramatically less than in years past, causing scientists, seine fishermen and lobstermen to shake their heads in confusion.

Trolley Tour
ARTICLE

A tour behind the shipyard gates

by Nancy Heiser

You seldom see anything made on such a large and systemized scale, with so much specialization and coordination, as the ship-building operation at Bath Iron Works. And you can't help but marvel at how these imposing ships get from plans to production to the open ocean, just a few miles down the deep Kennebec.

ARTICLE

Changing Times

Portland’s pier owners, fishermen and public officials struggle with waterfront zoning

by David D. Platt

Like most changes on Portland's historic waterfront, this change won't happen without a fight--or at least protracted negotiations and a certain amount of politics. The change, if it happens, would be a liberalization of the working-waterfront zoning that has controlled the ways the piers along Commercial Street are used.

Marine: Past Issues

COLUMN
AUGUST 2010

Long View: The end of the beginning

by Philip Conkling
ARTICLE
AUGUST 2010

Fathoming: Oil in the Gulf of Mexico: Not as far away as you think

by Dr. Heather Deese and Catherine Schmitt
ARTICLE
AUGUST 2010

Maine to solicit bids for offshore energy development

by Gillian Garratt-Reed
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
JULY 27TH, 2010

From the Town Landing: Revise the quotas, not the rules

by Anne Hayden and Philip Conkling