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Harbor Management Plans
This page consists of information and excerpts from various harbor management
plans around Maine
Contents
Guidance
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Harpswell, Maine -- 2005 Comprehensive Plan Document
Marine Environment
Goal: Maintain a high quality marine
ecosystem.
Harpswell’s identity stems from its connection to the sea. Marine resources
vital to the health and future of the town include clean ocean water,
unpolluted coastal marshes, shellfish beds, and wildlife habitat. The health
of these resources is determined by the amount, location and quality control
of new development. Factors such as faulty septic systems, pesticides and
fertilizers, and overboard discharges of untreated sewage degrade marine
resources. To achieve the goal of a high quality marine ecosystem, the Plan
outlines ordinances and actions that control pollution, promotes regional
cooperation and encourages ongoing educational efforts.
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Marine Economy
Goal: Encourage and promote the
retention and growth of marine economic activities including, but not
limited to fishing, shell fishing, boat building, tourism and marine supply
and service.
Fishing has been the mainstay of the local economy for generations. Many
fishing families still reside in town after five or six generations.
Research indicates that 50-60% of local jobs are fishing-related. The value
of the landed catch in Harpswell varies with conditions and regulations, but
is estimated at $10 million annually. Some fishermen state they represent
the last generation to continue fishing because of regulation, risk,
development pressures, and other options open to younger individuals.
Pressures on the industry include loss of access to the ocean, increasing
recreational use of waters, federal regulation, and closure of shellfish
grounds due to pollution from development. To retain a sustainable marine
economy, the town must limit conversion of working waterfronts to new
residential uses, preserve access, manage lands abutting shellfish flats to
reduce pollution, and diversify the marine economy by promoting nature-base
tourism on town waters.
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WWF_AccessReport_053107.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Mapping Maine’s
Working Waterfront
A Statewide Inventory by the Island Institute
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Working Waterfront - Harbor Management
New York State:
The State's harbors are subject to an ever-increasing array of use
conflicts. These include conflicts between passive and active types of
recreation, between commercial and recreational uses, and between all uses
and the natural resources of a harbor. Increases in recreational boating,
changes in waterfront uses, what to do with dredged materials, competition
for space, multiple regulating authorities all make effective harbor
management complex.
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Building a Wellfleet Harbor Management Plan
Plans
Related
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The Urban
Harbors Institute of the University of Massachusetts Boston
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Marine Law
Institute Home Page
The Marine Law
Institute is the research and public service component of the Ocean and
Coastal Law Program and is the only law school-affiliated marine policy
research program in the Northeast. MLI has dedicated its program of legal
and policy research to the analysis of ocean and coastal resource issues for
the express purpose of improving management practices and public
understanding.
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Marine
Research Connectivity Project
For over twenty
years, the Marine Law Institute has been "connecting" with people and
institutions who are in turn "connected" to the coastal and ocean areas of
the state. The Marine Research Connectivity project will afford the
Institute an opportunity to increase its ability to work with other research
institutions to increase our ability to serve the people of Maine whose
lives and livelihoods are linked to the marine environment. Specifically,
the project will allow the Institute to broaden its research and education
efforts related to issues including:
· Harbor Management;
· Coastal Access;
· Aquaculture;
· Coastal Zone Management; and,
· Marine Resource Stewardship.
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Marine
Law Institute - University of Maine School of Law
The Marine Law
Institute is the research and public service component of the Ocean and
Coastal Law Program and is the only law school-affiliated marine policy
research program in the Northeast. MLI has dedicated its program of legal
and policy research to the analysis of ocean and coastal resource issues for
the express purpose of improving management practices and public
understanding.
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Anticipatory planning for sea-level rise along the coast of Maine
prepared by Marine Law
Institute, Maine State Planning Office, Maine Geological Survey. (17 MB)
Grants
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3382.connors.pdf (application/pdf Object)
CREAM AND SUGAR
FOR THE LOCAL BREW? TECHNICAL|
ASSISTANCE GRANTS TO SUPPORT LOCAL SOLUTIONS
James F. Connors, Maine State Planning Office, Maine Coastal Program
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Weekly Highlights November 4 2005
State Planning
Office:
| MAINE COASTAL PROGRAM
Shore and harbor planning grants awarded
. Based on the recommendations of an
interdepartmental review group, the Maine Coastal
Program has awarded shore and harbor planning grants
to 13 coastal towns totaling nearly $165,000
dollars. We were not able to fund every project that
was submitted, but the projects selected will
support high priority needs for harbor plans and
ordinances, harbor and mooring field management
efforts, public access improvements, and continued
development of harbor side amenities. The grants
funded are:
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Applicant Town
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Project Title
|
$$ Awarded
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| Bath |
Bath Waterfront Public Land
and Harbor Operations Plan |
$20,000 |
| Belfast |
Harbor Walk Planning &
Design, and other Waterfront Planning
Elements |
$10,000 |
| Castine |
Reconfiguration of the
Castine Harbor Mooring Field |
$15,000 |
| Cranberry Isles |
Four Harbor Ordinance |
$11,000 |
| Ellsworth |
Ellsworth Waterfront
Redevelopment Project |
$20,000 |
| Harrington |
Harrington Harbor Management
Plan |
$10,000 |
| Machiasport |
Machiasport Harbor
Management Plan & Harbor Management
Ordinance |
$25,000 |
| Mount Desert |
Somes and Bartlett Land
Harbor Realignment and Management |
$12,500 |
| Rockland |
Large Vessel Anchorage Area
Survey |
$3,855 |
| Rockport |
Planning & Design to Improve
Marine Park Infrastructure |
$6,000 |
| St. George |
Public Launching Facilities
w/ Vehicle & Trailer Parking Infrastructures
|
$10,000 |
| Stockton Springs |
Stockton Springs Harbor
Management Plan |
$10,000 |
| Westport Island |
Westport Island Municipal
Pier & Mooring Plan |
$11,000 |
| TOTAL |
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$164,355
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CONTACT: Jim Connors at 287-8938 or
mailto:jim.connors@maine.gov |
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Bibliography
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North Atlantic Water Dependent Use Study,
Managing the Shoreline for Water Dependent Uses and Guidebook to the
Economics of Waterfront Planning and Water Dependent Uses, prepared for the
New England/New York Coastal Zone Task Force by the Marine Law Institute,
University of Maine School of Law, December, 1988
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