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Current News (2010-2011)

WQDY RADIO

• Rockweed Coalition reaches Milestone - May 1, 2011 - WQDY.FM

FENCEVIEWER

• Kelp Harvest Opponents Attain a Critical Mass (May 2011)

BAR HARBOR TIMES

• Rockweed coalition identifies protected properties (May 2011)

FISHERMEN'S VOICE

• Seaweed flap refloated (April 2011)

THE QUODDY TIDES

• Six plans approved for Cobscook Bay rockweed harvest (March 2011)
  (Read the six harvest plan documents)

THE WORKING WATERFRONT

• Who owns the rockweed? (authored by Rockweed Coalition directors) (Jan 2011)

THE QUODDY TIDES

• Rockweed harvest ramps up debate on intertidal access (Sept 2010)
• No cut list for rockweed may restrict harvest (July 2010)
• Rockweed harvest amounted to 4% of available biomass in bay (Jan 2010)
  

• Shoals class experiment analyzes seaweed

MACHIAS VALLEY NEWS OBSERVER

• Controversy simmers over definitions (July 2010): page 1 and page 2

BANGOR DAILY NEWS

• Rockweed biologist receives national award (Oct 2010)
• Rockweed harvest in question this year (June 2010)
  
• Protecting rockweed to sustain local fisheries, jobs (Jan 2010)
  
• Rockweed symposium at UMaine urges research on harvest impact (Jan 2010)
  

WALL STREET JOURNAL

• Scraping Bottom, Some in Maine Look to Seaweed for Salvation
  Fight Over Habitat Damage Puts at Risk Source of Income for Hard-Hit Coastal Towns (2010)
  

DOWNEAST MAGAZINE

• Scrapping over seaweed (Jan 2010)
  
  

RADIO

Jan. 6-7, 2010: Rockweed in Maine: Interview on Canadian Broadcasting Company Maritime Noon program. (Click the arrow at the bottom of the page to start the broadcast. The rockweed story starts at 6:30 on the timer (6 min 30 sec) into the show.)

Julie Keene (fisherman) and Dr. Robin Hadlock Seeley, marine ecologist (Shoals Marine Laboratory, Cornell University, Appledore Island, Maine) discuss rockweed cutting in Maine and the ecological importance of rockweed.

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