Maritime Shorts
Trawl survey
AUGUSTA The Department of Marine Resources spring inshore trawl survey is scheduled to begin in New Hampshire waters on May 3 and then make its way up the coast, ending in Cutler/Lubec in early June.
“The survey is designed to provide information that has not been available to NOAA Fisheries Service for stock assessments,” the DMR wrote in a statement. “Obtaining this information is critical to making rational management decisions. The better information we have about all our fisheries resources, the better we can ensure a future for both fishermen and the resource.”
On scheduled tow days, the DMR is asking that an area one-eighth of a mile on either side of the tow line be clear of fixed gear.
Pickering Cove lease proposed May 4, 2021 on News, Waterfront
DEER ISLE The public comment period on a proposed shellfish site in Pickering Cove will run through the end of May.
Abigail Barrows has proposed a 4-acre oyster and scallop farm south of Big Hay Island. In her application to the Department of Marine Resources that was deemed complete last week, she asked to grow oysters in suspended surface bags and scallops in lantern nets in the water column. Pogy fishing and clamming take place about a quarter- to half-mile away and most lobstering is farther out in Southeast Harbor, Barrows wrote in the application.