When oyster farmer Luke Saindon went looking for a place to grow shellfish in Maine, he knew that picking the wrong patch of ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - They say the world is your oyster. And for one small company in Hancock County, that’s more than just a saying. In this month’s My Maine Takes, Logan Hoffman finds out how ...

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WESTPORT ISLAND, Maine (WMTW) — Andrew Buchner started farming oysters for two years. He has about two years to go until his first harvest, but so far everything is growing well. He has one limited ...

Nick Planson of Shred Electric explains how his company converted an old pontoon boat into a 24-foot oyster processing barge powered by solar panels and batteries. Photo by Fred J. Field. From a ...

This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: themainemonitor.org. From a distance, what appears to be an old ...

Like lobsters, oysters used to be so abundant that their main purpose was to provide protein for the common folk. From the early days of the European settlement of North America, oystering blossomed, ...

Maine’s commercial fishing industry is taking a closer look at electric boats as a way to cut fuel costs and reduce emissions, particularly in aquaculture. The Freeport-based oyster farm Maine Ocean ...

A Brunswick oyster business has received honors from two statewide entrepreneurial competitions in as many weeks. Nor’Easter Oyster won the top prize of $25,000 in the Maine Center for Entrepreneurs’ ...

From a distance, what appears to be an old pontoon boat with a shade canopy was tugging at its mooring near an island in Casco Bay. Up close, the retrofitted pontoon is actually something quite new: ...