2009

Portland Sunday Telegram

• Harvest disturbs Bay residents

Television

WLBZ / WCSH TV, Bangor/Portland ME

• Tension grows over rockweed harvesting
• Battle intensifies over rockweed harvest in Cobscook Bay

Print

Quoddy Tides

• Rockweed season’s harvesting slowed by new legislation
• Committee supports legislation to impose rockweed regulations
• Rockweed controversy heats up as season nears
  
• Bills take aim at rockweed, MPBN, schools
  
• County commission supports rockweed harvest moratorium
• DMR will consider expanded rules for rockweed harvest
  
• Impact of rockweed harvesting in Cobscook Bay area debated
• Fishermen protest harvesting of rockweed in Cobscook Bay
• Harvesting of rockweed in bay stirs debate

Bangor Daily News

• Seaweed surcharge hearing draws few people
• A sea change for rockweed harvest?
• Seaweed harvest dispute swirling
• Seaweed harvests stir opposition Down East
• Sides divided on rockweed harvesting

Portland Press Herald

• Just whose SEAWEED is it, anyway?
• Activists seek halt to harvest of rockweed in Cobscook Bay
  Residents of the region have expressed concerns about the harvest's impact on marine life and boaters.

Older Coverage

2000

Ellsworth American

• Residents Say Rules Won't Protect Seaweed

National Public Radio

• LIVING ON EARTH: Maine Rockweed

Boston.com

• A sea change for seaweed. Once a little-known business in Maine, harvesting is drawing scrutiny of state officials, environmentalists as industry grows to meet demand.

1999

• BITTER HARVEST
  Canadians protested rockweed harvest on Grand Manan Island, NB