January 12— AUGUSTA, Maine — The Marine Resources Committee is scheduled to get the Legislature’s second session off to a busy start on Wednesday (Jan. 13) with a public hearing on proposed legislation affecting the elver fishery. That hearing is scheduled for the morning and is to be followed by work sessions on four bills in the afternoon.
At 10 a.m., the committee is scheduled to hold a public hearing on a bill sponsored by Rep. Walter A. Kumiega (D-Deer Isle) and Sen. Brian Langley (R-Hancock County), among others. LD 1502 would give the Department of Marine Resources authority to set the weekly, two-day closure of the elver fishery by rule before the season starts. The idea is to allow DMR to take the daily tides and phase of the moon into account when establishing the weekly closures.