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Coastal Access & Working Waterfronts

PRESS RELEASE | 14 November 2011 Sea Grant outreach award presented to Maine-based working waterfront partnership

Newport, RI - A partnership effort to advance working waterfront awareness and protection in the United States today received the Outstanding Group Outreach Award from the Northeast Sea Grant Consortium.

PRESS RELEASE | 12 November 2010 Getting there from here: coastal access information available in five states

Contact Kristen Grant, 207.646.1555 x115, kristen.grant@maine.edu

     Across the country, fishermen, kayakers, town officials, and waterfront property owners face local conflicts over access to beaches, rivers, and shorelines. In Maine, where such conflicts revealed a need for information about legal mechanisms for addressing coastal access issues, Maine Sea Grant created an online access resource with funding from the National Sea Grant Law Center, www.accessingthemainecoast.com.

PRESS RELEASE | 8 October 2010 National coalition to focus on working waterways and waterfronts

PORTLAND, ME - At the conclusion of a national symposium here last week, representatives from federal, state, and local governments and organizations announced the formation of a National Working Waterways & Waterfronts Coalition.

PRESS RELEASE | 10 May 2010 Maine to host national symposium on working waterfronts

ORONO - Registration has begun for the Working Waterways and Waterfronts National Symposium on Water Access, September 27-30 in Portland, Maine.

Across the United States, communities, water-dependent industries, and the public face conflicts over access to waterways, waterfronts, shorelines, and beaches. The challenge will only increase in the years to come: by 2050, the US population is expected to exceed 400 million people, more than half of whom will live in a coastal county if growth trends continue.

Coastal Access and Working Waterfronts

Coastal access and working waterfronts have been a major focus for Maine Sea Grant since 2003 when, in response to reported fears of declining access, we hosted our first workshop for 100 participants with the Gulf of Maine Foundation and others.

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