Chris Petersen -- Chair -- chris.w.petersen@gmail.com
Term expires 2013
Ron Landis -- Vice-Chair 288-9320
Term expires 2012
Megan McOsker -- Secretary megan.mcosker@gmail.com
Term exp. 2013
Natalie Springuel natspringuel@gmail.com 288 4205
Term exp. 2014
Scott Swann sswann@coa.edu 288 4476 (H) 266 4556 (c)
Term exp. 2014
Michael McKernan mmckernan@gmail.com 288 3926 (H)
Term exp. 2014
VACANCY -- Term exp. 2012
The Marine Resources Committee meets every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 4pm
Before clamming in any area in Bar Harbor you should check to make sure the area is open. Potential shellfish closures are listed below. (Note: shellfish growing areas are designated by growing area. Frenchman's Bay is DMR growing area EI, #47.):
Bacterial closures
www.maine.gov/dmr/rm/public_health/closures/closedarea.htm
Flood closures
www.maine.gov/dmr/rm/public_health/closures/closedarea.htm#flood
Red Tide closures
www.maine.gov/dmr/rm/public_health/closures/pspclosures.htm
State wide closures
www.maine.gov/dmr/rm/public_health/closures/closedarea.htm#statewide
Or, call the Department of Marine Resources Maine Red Tide and Shellfish Sanitation Hotline 1-800-232-4733 or 207-633-9571
These state sites are important to check so that you can verify that there are no long-term or short-term local closures due to red tides, rain, or other activities that could contaminate shellfish. To check for these in Bar Harbor you can also call the Bar Harbor Harbormaster at 288-5571
To get more general information on water quality in Maine, you can check out these websites:
Dept. of Marine Resources Public health and safety: Eating shellfish and swimming: www.maine.gov/dmr/healthsafety.htm
Maine PSP (Red Tide) Closures www.maine.gov/dmr/rm/public_health/closures/pspclosures.htm
Maine Healthy Beaches -- Volunteer monitoring program that measures for potential fecal contamination in water -- serves as an advisory for swimming www.mainehealthybeaches.org/index.html Data on beaches in the Bar Harbor region are available here www.mainecoastdata.org/public/Area7.aspx
Research Projects
A summary of recent research done on marine resources with
an emphasis on clams, with PDF 19s of research reports.
Hadley Point signboard information
This is a pdf version of the poster that is posted at the
signboard at Hadley Point in Bar Harbor and was designed by the Marine
Resources Committee with help from Maine Sea Grant. View the poster