Pickering Cove News Today

DEER ISLE — A proposed 4.24-acre oyster farm in Pickering Cove, south of Big Hay Island and west of Freese Island, has raised local concerns over potential effects on clamming

DEER ISLE — A proposed 4.24-acre oyster farm in Pickering Cove, south of Big Hay Island and west of Freese Island, has raised local concerns over potential effects on clamming

The applicant says fishing is limited in the area, but the lease site would displace one or two lobstermen’s traps.

Maritime Shorts Trawl survey  AUGUSTA—The Department of Marine Resources spring inshore trawl survey is scheduled to begin in New Hampshire waters on May 3 and then make its way up the coast, ending in Cutler/Lubec in early June.    “The survey is designed to provide information that has not been available to NOAA Fisheries Service for stock assessments,” the DMR wrote in a statement. “Obtaining this information is critical to making rational management decisions. The better...

Pickering Cove lease proposed May 4, 2021 on News, Waterfront DEER ISLE — The public comment period on a proposed shellfish site in Pickering Cove will run through the end of May.  Abigail Barrows has proposed a 4-acre oyster and scallop farm south of Big Hay Island. In her application to the Department of Marine Resources that was deemed complete last week, she asked to grow oysters in suspended surface bags and scallops in lantern nets in the water column. Pogy fishing and clamming...