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News
- 1/15/2020: Elver Lottery to Allow New Entrants into Maine's Lucrative Elver Fishery
- 1/10/2020: New Marine Patrol Officers to Serve in Machias and Boothbay Harbor After Academy
- 1/3/2020: Maine Submits Right Whale Proposal to NMFS
- 1/2/2020: Maine Lobster Ventless Trap Program Seeking 3 Industry Partipants
- 11/22/2019: Scallop Drag and Dive License Lotteries Winners Announced
- 11/15/2019: Online Renewals are Now Available for 2020 Calendar Year Licenses
- 11/7/2019: Marine Patrol Release Identity of Man Whose Body Was Recovered from Flanders Bay
- 11/7/2019: Body of Deceased Male Recovered from Flanders Bay
PROPOSED, NEW, OR EMERGENCY REGULATIONS
- Posted January 17, 2020
- Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (10) Chandler & Eastern Bays
- Posted January 8, 2020
- Notice of Agency Rulemaking Proposal - Chapter 8 Landings Program.
- Notice of Agency Rulemaking Proposal - Chapter 36 Atlantic Herring.
- Notice of Agency Rulemaking Proposal - Chapter 55 Gear Restrictions.
- Notice of Agency Rulemaking Proposal - Chapter 42: Striped Bass
- Notice of Agency Rulemaking Proposal - Chapter 41 Atlantic Menhaden
- Notice of Agency Rulemaking Proposal - Chapter 32 Elver Quota System for the 2020 season
- Posted January 3, 2020
- Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (9) Upper Narraguagus Bay
- Posted December 31, 2019
- Notice of Agency Rulemaking Proposal - Chapter 32 Elver Quota System for the 2020 season
- Posted December 20, 2019
- Notice of Agency Rulemaking Proposal - Chapter 8 Landings Program Aquaculture Reporting:
- Posted December 6, 2019
- Notice of Emergency Rulemaking - Chapter 11.08, Targeted Closures: (8) Moosabec Reach
MEETINGS AND EVENTS
- Aquaculture Public Hearing Notice -Taunton Bay Oyster Co, Inc. - Taunton Bay, Hancock – January 21, 2020 – 18 Point Road, Hancock, ME
- Lobster Zone F Council Meeting – January 21, 2020 – Yarmouth
- Aquaculture Scoping Session - Maine Island Aquaculture, LLC – January 22, 2020 – 16 Town Office Square, North Haven, ME 04853
- Lobster Zone G Council Meeting – January 22, 2020 – Kennebunk
- Aquaculture Scoping Session -Acadia Aqua Farms, LLC – January 23, 2020 – 1051 Eagle Lake Road, Bar Harbor, ME
- Aquaculture Lease Hearing - Walter Coffin – January 27, 2020 – 19 Kendall Lane, Freeport, ME
- Aquaculture Scoping Session - Brian Harvey, LLC – January 27, 2020 – 50 Oak Point Road, Trenton, ME
- Lobster Zone D Council Meeting – February 4, 2020 – Rockland
- Aquaculture Lease Hearing - Timothy Johnson – February 11, 2020 – 837 Cundy's Harbor Road, Harpswell
- Maine Fishermens Forum – March 5 - 7, 2020 – Rockport
- Aquaculture Lease Hearing -Downeast Institute – February 4, 2020 – 11 Big Pond Road, Beals, ME 04611
