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• Buckfield teacher receives McCarthy Education Innovation Award

  PORTLAND — The Gulf of Maine Research Institute honored Buckfield Junior-Senior High School teacher Gretchen Kimball with the fifth annual McCarthy Education Innovation Award. GMRI …

  Press Clips | Lewiston Sun Journal

• Climate Change Brought a Lobster Boom. Now It Could Cause a Bust.

  Warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have benefited lobsters and the lobstermen who trap them. But as temperatures rise further, will the industry reach …

  Press Clips | The New York Times

• Demand for underused fish species grows slowly but surely in Maine

  The trend may have something to do with a three-year-old Gulf of Maine Research Institute effort to get restaurants to serve less-traditional catches.

  Press Clips | Press Herald

• Following Fish on the Move

  As marine waters off the Northeast Shelf have warmed over the past 30 years, with particularly rapid warming occuring in the past decade, fisheries in …

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• Floating the idea of more Maine shellfish, everywhere

  As regional and global markets clamor for cold water shellfish, the state's producers look to expand their market base.

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• Gulf of Maine, Explained: Fisheries Acoustics

  In the vast depths of the Gulf of Maine, concentrated patches of organisms punctuate long empty stretches. This can create some challenges for scientists who …

  Gulf of Maine, Explained | 1 min Read

• Gulf of Maine, Explained: Sea Level Rise

  The Gulf of Maine occupies only a small corner of the global ocean, but it is a microcosm for changes, challenges, and opportunities arising around …

  Gulf of Maine, Explained | 2 min Read

• Portland, South Portland plan to fight against climate change

  Municipal officials hope to develop plans for each community to reduce carbon footprints and counter the effects of global warming.

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• Gulf of Maine, Explained: The Warming Gulf of Maine

  What was once a startling observation among our team of ecosystem modelers is now common knowledge: over the course of a decade, the Gulf of …

  Gulf of Maine, Explained | 1 min Read

• Research Concludes Maine Conservation Technique Helped Drive Lobster Population Boom

  Lobster conservation techniques pioneered by Maine fishermen helped drive a population boom that's led to record landings this century. That's the

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