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John Sheppard from Mass. Marine Fisheries and Mike Brown from Maine Department of Marine Resources give the basics on counting alewife and other river herring and on the Visucount database app

What makes a researcher who has studied pigs’ role in the social life of people in the Philippines want to come to Maine and study lobster fishing? In this Lunch and Learn we will meet MCCF’s guest researcher, Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme who is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Remme is currently leading a larger research project called SEATIMES: How C...

Speakers: Mike Thalhauser, MCCF Collaborative Management Specialist Emily Farr, Senior Fisheries Program Manager at Manomet Please join Mike and Emily to learn about everything alewives and river herring, during this one-hour, moderated panel discussion. This lunch and learn will go over the basic life history of these important fish, discuss why they are a keystone species to Maine, and revie...

Zooplankton Sampling Demonstration

The Gulf of Maine River Herring Network shows us how to build a zooplankton net.

The Eastern Gulf of Maine Sentinel Survey has been collecting information on Atlantic cod and other ground fish in 5,000 square miles of our coastal shelf for over a decade. In this video, the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries' Chief Scientist, Carla Guenther, and Collaborative Research Specialist, Pat Shepard, along with Doctoral candidate, Robyn Linner from Dr. Yong Chen’s lab at Stony Brook...

The first discussion of 2023 in our Lunch and Learn Series is on Ecosystem-Based Management from a Sea-Run Fish Perspective with Dr. Valerie Ouellet from the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center. Sea-run fish once supported extensive subsistence, commercial, and recreational fisheries in Maine rivers and also provided a suite of other ecosystem services. Val developed a visually engaging com...

Join us onboard the F/V Alexsa Rose as we explain the various pieces of safety equipment onboard an offshore lobster boat, and how to use them in an emergency situation. Safety training is a major piece of our Eastern Maine Skippers Program, making sure our communities’ youth is comfortable and confident in a vessel emergency. During this one-hour presentation we fight a real fire, blow up an i...

Last fall, Leroy Weed and Herbie Carter brought us down to the clam flats to show us how to dig for clams in the “Ask Leroy!” episode “Leroy Goes Clamming.” We are excited to share that this duo is back, but this time they’re in the kitchen to show us how to purge, shuck, prepare, and cook clams. MCCF’s Mike Thalhauser also joined them to talk about how clams are managed in the state and the wo...

Patrice McCarron, Executive Director of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, addresses the current state of lobstering in Maine including the serious challenges facing the industry such as federal regulations and off-shore energy projects that threaten the future of Maine’s lobstering heritage. This one-hour presentation is moderated by MCCF’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Carla Guenther and includes com...

Purse Seining for Pogies with the Boyces

What’s on your summer bucket list? If Stonington, ME is in your travel plans, Discovery Wharf at Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries on Atlantic Avenue is a must see. Come along with us for a virtual tour, a live interview with Captain Leroy Weed and other salty characters, and get a sneak peek at some of the interactive exhibits we have to offer at our waterfront headquarters. This series is ho...

Captain Leroy Weed is back to answer more of your questions about Maine's coastal fisheries. With callers from California, Illinois, and our home state of Maine, and questions about the mussel, lobster, and clam fisheries, there's plenty for everyone in this episode. Have a question about Maine's coastal fisheries that you've been wanting to ask Leroy? Call 224-58-LEROY (224-585-3769), leave yo...

Collaborative research involves many different partners from different segments of the industry including fishermen, scientists, managers, and project coordinators. Some may be directly involved on the water collecting samples, and others may be indirectly involved, receiving and analyzing data, creating reports and publications. All have different questions and objectives, but all have a simil...

A Watershed Moment | FULL FILM

Lunch & Learn - A River Herring Network

A Watershed Moment | TRAILER

Ask Leroy! Ep. 26 | Blue Lobsters & Purple Rope

Lunch & Learn: Offshore Wind Energy in the Gulf of ME: Developing a Roadmap to the Future

Lunch & Learn: Developing Social Indicators of Resilience in Maine’s Lobster Fishery

Ask Leroy! Ep. 25 | How to Splice Rope

Ask Leroy! Ep. 24 | Leroy Goes Clamming

Lunch & Learn - Much Ado About the North Atlantic Right Whale: But What Do We Know?

Ask Leroy! Ep. 23 | Snarled Traps, Jokes, and Turf Wars

Cod Sampling & Measuring on the Sentinel Survey

Lunch & Learn - Atlantic Salmon in Maine: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Lunch & Learn - The Downeast Fisheries Partnership

Ask Leroy! Ep. 22 - Touch Tank Tour

Lunch & Learn - Ocean Acidification in the Gulf of Maine