Who Owns Rockweed?

Rockweed Working Group

• October 18, 2016 Agenda
• July 26, 2016 Minutes

April 2, 2016 Meeting Documents

Agenda and Minutes

• Rockweed Meeting Agenda
• Rockweed Meeting Minutes

Presentations: A few of the PowerPoint presentations

• Frenchman Bay Partners, Introduction Presentation
• Jeff Romano, Legal and Regulatory Issues
• Jessie Muhlin, Rockweed Biology

Participant Questions

Questions written on index cards for the panel session at the event were transcribed and are available here.

Post-Meeting suggestions and comments

Relevant Resources from Interested Parties 

The resources below are from a variety of parties with varying perspectives on rockweed. Inclusion on this page is in no way an endorsement by the Frenchman Bay Partners nor an expression of the views and opinions of the Frenchman Bay Partners.

Rockweed Coalition

• What’s the Controversy?
• Property Rights and Rockweed Cutting

Maine Seaweed Council

• Who owns the seaweed?
• Seaweed identification
• 2014 Harvester’s Field Guide to Maine Seaweeds

Larch Hanson (The Seaweed Man)

• Rockweed
• Harvest Guidelines
• Local Regulation of the Rockweed Resource

Ocean Organics

• An overview and brief history of rockweed harvesting in Maine
• Harvesting marine resources, or what’s a “Fishery”

Articles and Blog Posts

• Ellsworth American, February 9, 2015: Concern expressed over aggressive rockweed harvesting
• Ellsworth American, October 1, 2015: Battle over rockweed harvesting rages on in Gouldsboro 
• Ellsworth American, January 19, 2016: Washington county landowners file suit to block rockweed harvest on their shore
• Boothbay Register, March 15, 2016: Back to the future – with seaweed
• Ellsworth American, April 7, 2016: Group consensus: No simple answers on rockweed harvesting
• COA Fisheries, Fishermen, and Fishing Communities course blog post, April 10, 2016: Between a Rock and a Weed Place

Planning

Steering Committee Meetings

• September 29, 2015
• January 25, 2016
• April 7, 2016