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A Superior Court judge has ruled against a Canadian rockweed harvesting company in a civil case, saying that harvesters need to obtain a landowner’s permission before they can remove the seaweed ...

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Landowners around Cobscook Bay in Washington County are raising concerns that rockweed harvesting operations there are destroying the habitat for other marine organisms and shorebirds. The Quoddy ...

Residents of Stonington and Deer Isle expressed concern about noise from the machinery used to harvest rockweed in their area, as well as the potential for bycatch and the impact of harvesting on ...

To reach their study site at Jalama Beach, researchers must scramble down a steep cliff, through poison oak, under barbed wire, and across slick, rocky sands. Meanwhile, they’re hauling buckets and ...

As fishermen seek to make up for cuts in quotas for cod and other fish in New England, a new sustainability challenge is emerging along the coast of Maine — in the form of a humble sea grass called ...

Somewhat drab and unassuming, the humble rockweed's olive-green or yellowish-brown appearance belies its importance in the rocky intertidal zone. "It's considered a foundation species," UC Santa ...

Algae such as rockweeds are a fundamental part of marine ecosystems, providing habitat and food to many other marine organisms while also providing ecosystem services like oxygenation of the water. In ...

But rockweed landings in Maine have doubled in the last 10 years, to 15 million pounds in 2015. It’s not a high cash crop – the price per pound averages to 4 cents – but as a value-added product it ...