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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Read More
The Working Waterfront, “Rockweed study not accurately explained” (2/1/24)
This Op-Ed by David Porter provides more context for the University of Maine study and the university's press ... Read More
Legislators voted against LD 2003 (1/11/24)
Legislators voted against LD 2003, a bill that would have opened Maine's intertidal zone to rockweed harvesting without ... Read More
Maine Monitor, “Illegal rockweed harvesting cases dismissed in court” (1/13/24)
"James Young had faced two charges of harvesting rockweed in closed conservation areas and two charges of theft for ... Read More
Letter in the Ellsworth American, “Up for Grabs” (1/6/24)
"A bill (LD 2003) is now before the Maine Legislature to decriminalize the taking of seaweed (mostly rockweed) from ... Read More
Weekly Packet (1/4/24) – Guest column by John Boit, Penobscot
"Seaweed bill would turn Maine’s coast into 3,000 miles of public land and threaten an ecosystem." Arguments against LD ... Read More
Letter in the Ellsworth American, “The Truth About Rockweed” (12/14/23)
David Porter, of Brooklin, describes misleading publicity about a recent scientific paper published by researchers at ... Read More
WERU Radio with David Porter, Brooklin (12/27/23)
David Porter introduces the Blue Hill Peninsula Rockweed Forum on Amy Browne's WERU radio show, Around Town, December ... Read More
Blue Hill Peninsula Rockweed Forum
Advocating for the Conservation of Intertidal Rockweed
