An Interview with Paul Greenberg

Paul Greenberg is the author of American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood and Four Fish: The Future of … More

Maine’s Wild Oysters

Scientists are studying isolated oyster grounds in Maine’s Sheepscot River that may date back to the last ice age. Meanwhile, … More

Holtrachem mercury – It’s still here.

The Department of Marine Resources has closed upper Penobscot Bay to fishing after a court-ordered study found elevated concentrations of … More

How did U.S. presidents eat their salmon?

For eighty years, recreational salmon anglers on the Penobscot River in Maine upheld the annual tradition of giving the first … More

Review: Running Silver by John Waldman

Salmon, eels and nine other sea-run fish make great migrations across the Atlantic Ocean and along the Gulf Stream and … More

Review: The Mortal Sea

The stories are well-known: European seafarers and explorers encountered a western Atlantic Ocean filled with numerous, large, and robust fish, … More

Sturgeon Moon Rising

In June 2006 I was in the boat with University of Maine researchers when they caught the second and third … More

Spring Tradition: Anglers Vied to Catch Penobscot’s Presidental Salmon

This article appeared in the Bangor Daily News on March 30, 2012.One hundred years ago, a local fly-fisherman decided to … More

Long May They Run

Just a few months into 2010, the Year of the Sardine, news came that the Stinson Seafood plant in Prospect … More

New Orleans, the Gulf Coast, 2010

This essay was a finalist in Terrain‘s 2011 annual contest. I. Dimension At first, I see the lake, and then … More