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Scarborough Marsh. Coordinates: 43°33′3″N 70°20′1″W. Scarborough Marsh is a 3,200-acre saltwater marsh owned by the state of Maine and managed by the state's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife as a wildlife management area. [1] It is situated in southern Maine, in the town of Scarborough, in Cumberland County.
Penobscot River - Wikipedia ... Penobscot River
The bay receives water from nearly 40% of Maine's land area as well as from part of New Hampshire. The watershed is just under 20,000 square miles (50,000 km 2 ). Merrymeeting Bay is linked to the Gulf of Maine and the Atlantic Ocean by the Lower Kennebec River, a long saltwater tidal channel.
Piscataqua River. The Piscataqua River (Abenaki: Pskehtekwis) is a 12-mile-long (19 km) tidal river forming the boundary of the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Maine from its origin at the confluence of the Salmon Falls River and Cochecho River to the Atlantic Ocean. The drainage basin of the river is approximately 1,495 square miles (3,870 km ...
Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery
Length. 11.5 miles (18.5 km) The Stillwater River is an 11.5-mile-long (18.5 km) [ 1] side channel of the Penobscot River in Maine. From its source ( 44°57′59″N 68°38′45″W) in Old Town, the Stillwater runs 2.3 miles (3.7 km) northwest along the northeast side of Orson Island, the site of the Penobscot Indian Reservation.
The Western Gulf of Maine Closure Area (WGoMAC) was established in 1998 in response to the decreasing Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) stock. [2] WGoMAC is located off the shores of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine and is approximately 3,100 km 2 (1,200 sq mi). [2] It is rectangular and runs in straight lines from 42° 15' to 43° 15' North ...
Private anglers, 16.5 inch minimum size, two fish/person/day May 21 through Aug. 26 and three fish/person/day Aug. 27 to Dec. 31. Party and charter boats would have a 16 inch minimum size with a ...