A Superior Court judge has ruled against a Canadian rockweed harvesting company in a civil case, saying that harvesters need to obtain a landowner’s permission before they can remove the seaweed ...

Residents of Stonington and Deer Isle expressed concern about noise from the machinery used to harvest rockweed in their area, as well as the potential for bycatch and the impact of harvesting on ...

But rockweed landings in Maine have doubled in the last 10 years, to 15 million pounds in 2015. It’s not a high cash crop – the price per pound averages to 4 cents – but as a value-added product it ...

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A harvester holds freshly cut rockweed from the Pennamaquan River in Pembroke in this July 31, 2008, file photo. Credit: John Clarke Russ / BDN The Maine Marine Patrol is bringing charges against four ...

Harvesting of rockweed just got trickier, at least in Washington County, following a ruling by Maine Superior Court Judge Harold Stewart II that rockweed in the intertidal zone belongs to the owner of ...

Citizen scientists, pictured here, measure rockweed as a part of Project ASCO with Science Research Fellow Maya Pelletier. (Courtesy of Schoodic Institute) WINTER HARBOR – Schoodic Institute ...

To reach their study site at Jalama Beach, researchers must scramble down a steep cliff, through poison oak, under barbed wire, and across slick, rocky sands. Meanwhile, they’re hauling buckets and ...

As fishermen seek to make up for cuts in quotas for cod and other fish in New England, a new sustainability challenge is emerging along the coast of Maine — in the form of a humble sea grass called ...

Somewhat drab and unassuming, the humble rockweed’s olive-green or yellowish-brown appearance belies its importance in the rocky intertidal zone. “It’s considered a foundation species,” UC Santa ...

Mallards are omnivores, eating seeds, little invertebrates, an occasional tiny fish, and whatnot. Recent midwinter observations at North Tee Harbor documented them grazing on rockweed, a perennial ...