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Maine Rockweed Coalition

Promoting conservation of intertidal marine habitat.

Mission: The 501c3 Maine Rockweed Coalition promotes conservation of intertidal marine habitat, including rockweed.

MRC position statement 2025

Upcoming event: Feb 17, 2025 (more events)

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NEW! Click the map to explore this statewide interactive online map –  you can find any area of the coast and then explore tax parcels, conservation lands, rockweed beds, and (Cobscook Bay only) rockweed harvest sectors.

Cobscook Bay Rockweed Management Area map with conserved lands, tax parcels, rockweed ledges and rockweed harvest sectors.

NEW 2024 publication! (OPEN ACCESS)

New peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology by MRC senior scientist and three others is a critique of the 2023 paper concluding that rockweed grows back rapidly, a year after commercial harvest.

Dr. Ken Ross (1937 – March 6, 2024). Founding board member. Plaintiff in the landmark Ross v Acadian Seaplants case, which resulted in landowners having the legal right to deny rockweed harvesters access to the rockweed on their intertidal property. We remember Ken with gratitude and affection.