Notice to Harvesters: Maine-New Hampshire Inshore Trawl Survey to Begin September 22nd

The Fall 2025 ME-NH trawl survey conducted by the State of Maine, Department of Marine Resources is scheduled to begin September 22nd. We will sample from Portland, ME to Portsmouth, NH before heading back east to Lubec, ME. The more information we have regarding our fisheries, the better equipped we are to defend these resources and your livelihoods. The ME-NH trawl survey provides valuable information for the management of important commercially harvested species. Failure to complete the proposed tows could jeopardize the use of our data for state and federal lobster and finfish management. To address this, we will be increasing our efforts to move gear within the published tows.

If you have gear in the path of the survey, please clear an area 1/8th mile on either side of the 1 nautical mile towline for day of the tow to avoid the need for our Marine Patrol to handle it.

Latitude/Longitude and TD coordinates for Tow Locations (pair of dots with a line on the chart mark each tow) and schedules can be found by following this link: https://www.maine.gov/dmr/science/ecology-environment/inshore-trawl-survey/fall-2025

For more detailed charts, please call Robyn Linner on her cell phone at 207-350-6561, or email ([email protected])

Tow Schedule and Updates are available via several methods.

Boat Contacts:

• F/V Robert Michael monitors Channels 16 and 13
• Boat cell phone @ 207-350-6561 (Chief Scientist, Robyn Linner)

Web Site: https://www.maine.gov/dmr/science/ecology-environment/inshore-trawl-survey