Please hold the date for the next Lobster Zone B Council Meeting to be held Thursday, January 15th, 2026 at 5:00 PM.  This meeting will be held In-Person at the Mount Desert Island High School Library located at 1081 Eagle Lake Road, Bar Harbor.  The draft meeting agenda is posted below.

Please hold the date for the next Lobster Zone A Council Meeting to be held Wednesday, January 14th, 2026 at 4:00 PM.  This meeting will be held In-Person at the Washington Academy Library, located at 66 Cutler Road, East Machias.  The draft meeting agenda is posted below. 

The Department of Marine Resources (DMR) is holding a public hearing on the aquaculture proposal listed below:

Please hold the date for the next Lobster Zone F Council Meeting to be held on Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 at 5:00 PM.  This meeting will be held In-Person at the Log Cabin, located at 196 Main Street, Yarmouth. 

The meeting agenda is attached to this notice.

Please hold the date for the next Lobster Zone C Council Meeting to be held on Monday, December 29th, 2025 at 5:00 PM.  This meeting will be held In-Person at the Stonington Town Office located at 32 Main Street, Stonington.  

The meeting agenda is attached to this notice.

The Department of Marine Resources (DMR) is holding a public hearing on the aquaculture proposal listed below:

The Commercial Fishing Safety Council will meet Wednesday, December 17, 2025 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, remotely via Microsoft Teams.

 An agenda is below. A link to join the meeting is below the agenda.

This notice is to remind you that the winter bottom trawl survey of the Maine Research Array Wind Energy (MeRA) Area is scheduled to begin the week of January 12, 2026 and run through February 28, 2026.