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ROCKWEED REGISTRY FORM

PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ROCKWEED CUTTING

Who has the right to harvest intertidal rockweed in Maine?

• Who owns the rockweed?
  Column by Carl Ross, Julie Keene and Robin Hadlock Seeley (directors, Rockweed Coalition; February 2011)
• Attached rockweed cannot be harvested without permission of the landowner
  White paper by Hannah King, Univ of Maine School of Law, April 29, 2009
• Who owns the seaweed?
  Letter from Maine Attorney General, Steven Rowe, March 2008

Why sign up on the Rockweed Registry?
Listing your property on the Rockweed Registry lets rockweed cutting companies, and the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) know that you do not allow rockweed cutting on your property. Registry lists are updated every few weeks and sent to rockweed cutting companies and DMR.

ROCKWEED REGISTRY FORM

WHERE ARE THE PROTECTED LANDS?

This map (Sector and Protected Lands Map, updated May 2011) shows rockweed harvest sectors and all lands in Cobscook Bay where rockweed cutting is prohibited (Sec. 3. 12 MRSA §6803-C). This map also shows Rockweed Registry lands where landowners are on record as prohibiting rockweed cutting on their lands.

Letter from the Maine Legislature (Marine Resources Committee) June 10th, 2009, warning harvesters not to cut rockweed on lands registered with the Rockweed Registry.