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Ocean Planning Update: Supplementary November 16-17 Meeting Materials

November 11, 2015 — The following was released by the Northeast Ocean Council: 

Supplementary meeting materials, which will be presented and discussed at the upcoming November 16-17 Northeast Regional Planning Body Meeting, have been posted online. If you have not yet registered, please do so by following the registration link on the meeting webpage.

The meeting summary from our October 20 Stakeholder Forum is also available online.

Coast Guard tows disabled Portland-based fishing boat back home

September 3, 2015 — A Portland-based fishing boat with four people aboard was towed back home Thursday morning after engine problems disabled it about 50 miles east of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

The captain of the 45-foot Danny Boy radioed the U.S. Coast Guard for help at about 1:15 a.m., the Coast Guard said in a news release.

Read the full story from the Portland Press Herald

Americold wins bid to build cold-storage warehouse on Portland, Maine waterfront

September 1, 2015 — The world’s largest cold-storage company has been chosen to build a modern refrigerated warehouse on the Portland waterfront, providing the port with a critical missing element to compete with larger, more congested ports on the Eastern Seaboard.

The state will lease a 6.3-acre site to Americold, which will design the warehouse, fund its construction and operate it. The project is part of a state-led effort to make the port more competitive with other ports and to boost Maine’s seafood, agriculture, and food and beverage industries.

The Maine Port Authority announced Monday that Americold Logistics LLC won the bid to develop the site, located adjacent to the expanded International Marine Terminal on West Commercial Street. The proposed cost of the project, which is scheduled to be completed in 2017, was not disclosed.

Americold already operates a 63-year-old cold-storage warehouse on Read Street in Portland. Company officials say they’re evaluating whether to close that outmoded facility or keep it open for overflow and long-term storage. Americold is partnering on the project with Eimskip, the Icelandic shipping company that made Portland its North American headquarters in 2013. Eimskip will be both an investor and an anchor tenant.

There is currently a shortage of cold-storage warehouse space in Maine, prompting many of the state’s food producers and processors to ship their products out of state for storage.

Eimskip primarily ships frozen fish from Europe to the United States through Portland. While Eimskip now stores some of its imported seafood at the Americold facility on Read Street, the company trucks most of its fish to cold-storage warehouses in the Boston area.

Read the full story at the Portland Press Herald

 

New restrictions set for recreational fishing for cod, haddock in Maine

August 15, 2015 — Maine fishing regulators are enacting new restrictions on recreational fishermen who fish for cod and haddock.

Maine’s new rules went into effect on Aug. 8 and apply to charter, party and recreational fishing vessels in state waters. Cod fishing in the state is now closed, and it is unlawful for recreational fishermen to take or possess cod in state waters. The minimum size for haddock caught by recreational fishermen is being reduced to 17 inches.

Read the full story from the Associated Press at the Portland Press Herald

Feds to Meet With Fishermen as They Assess Health of Species

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — July 22, 2015 — Officials with the Northeast Fisheries Science Center will hold meetings throughout New England about upcoming assessments of 20 stocks of important commercial fish species.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is using the assessments for information needed to set annual catch limits.

Read the full story from the Associated Press at CapeCod.com

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