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Stronger regulations needed for rockweed harvesting (10/29/24)
Letter to the Portland Press Herald from David Porter and Allison Snow. https://www.pressherald.com/2024/10/29/letter-stronger-regulations-needed-for-rockweed-harvesting/ ... Read More
Maine’s high court hears oral arguments in beach access case (10/10/24)
Article in the Portland Press Herald. Video of oral arguments available here. ... Read More
How rockweed harvesting got tied up in a lawsuit over public beach access (10/4/24)
Article in the Portland Press Herald. ... Read More
BDN Letter – Beach access case and rockweed harvesting (7/16/24)
"I think focusing attention on beach access is a classic distraction away from the plaintiffs’ desire to have unfettered commercial access to Maine’s underwater rockweed forest." Letter by David Porter in the Bangor Daily News July 16, ... Read More
Hakai Magazine features rockweed forest (7/5/24)
"Here is a photo of the rockweed forest on the coast of Maine where I live." by David Porter (link to Hakai Magazine with this featured post) ... Read More
Quoddy Tides, “Paper disputes rockweed recovery claim” (4/26/24)
"The new paper asserts that the previous 2023 study was critically flawed, that the data in the study do not show that rockweed recovers within one year's time, and that the previous paper should not be used to determine Maine's marine ... Read More
Letter in the Ellsworth American, “Rockweed risk vs. reward” (3/7/24)
Mark Harris writes that industrial-scale rockweed harvesting poses a risk for fish and wildlife and is not properly regulated. Dear Editor: “In the weeds: Seaweed proves a valuable cash crop” was the lead article in the insert on Hancock County’s ... Read More
Letter in the Ellsworth American, “Rockweed is not kelp” (3/7/24)
David Porter discusses kelp farming vs. harvesting of wild rockweed, and why it is important to protect rockweed from over-harvesting. Dear Editor: I was pleased to see promotion of seaweed aquaculture in the article “In the weeds” [Ellsworth ... Read More
Quoddy Tides, “Protecting rockweed & working waterfront” (2/23/24)
Guest column by Robin Hadlock Seeley, PhD, executive director of the Maine Rockweed Coalition: Supporting the working waterfront means supporting fishery habitat. Rockweed, our local seaweed along low tide shorelines, is a vital commercial fishery ... Read More