Patrick Whittle

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In this July 1, 2014 photo released by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, (IFAW) gray seals congregate on the shore in Chatham, Mass. Decades after gray seals were all but wiped out in New England waters, the population has rebounded so much that they are taking over large stretches of shore, attracting sharks which feed on them, and are interfering with fishing charters. (AP Photo/International Fund for Animal Welfare)

As numbers of gray seals rise, so do conflicts

Patrick Whittle · July 20, 2014 2:00 pm

Maine lobster fishing season off to slow start

Patrick Whittle · July 16, 2014 8:14 pm

In this photo made Thursday, June 26, 2014, light from a digital projector beams from the projection house at the Saco Drive-In in Saco, Maine. Drive-in movie theater operators say more than 200 of the remaining 348 drive-ins in the country have made the costly switch from film to digital. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Drive-ins use creativity to afford digital switch

Patrick Whittle · July 12, 2014 1:44 pm

In this July 6, 2014, photo released by the Bangor Police Department, the department's stuffed "duck of justice" greets the sunrise from atop a police cruiser in Bangor, Maine. The mascot, a wood duck that had been stuffed by a taxidermist and rescued from a trash compactor, has attracted more than 20,000 likes on its departmental Facebook page, and is being used as a new way of engaging with the public. (AP Photo/Bangor Police Department)

Maine police get Facebook boost with stuffed duck

Patrick Whittle · July 9, 2014 4:29 pm

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 file photo, northern shrimp lie in a pile aboard a trawler in the Gulf of Maine. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission closed the 2014 shrimp season for the first time in more than 30 years because shrimp populations dipped to their lowest recorded levels. The commission is considering restrictions that could limit the number of licenses to fish for shrimp in the Gulf of Maine once the depleted fishery reopens. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine’s shrimp fishery may face new restrictions

Patrick Whittle · July 6, 2014 3:03 pm

In this Friday, June 20, 2014 photo, Frank Carlson breaks a claw off a lobster at the Sea Hag Seafood processing plant in St. George, Maine. State officials and lobster industry leaders are working to bring more lobster meat processing back to Maine from Canada, where much of it takes place. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Maine to fight Canada’s hold on lobster processing

Patrick Whittle · June 22, 2014 3:11 pm

Herring fishermen denied haddock bycatch increase

Patrick Whittle · June 19, 2014 10:03 pm

Herring and haddock fishermen at odds over bycatch

Patrick Whittle · June 15, 2014 1:00 pm

People sit on benches in Congress Square Plaza Monday, June 9, 2014, in Portland, Maine. A squabble over the city's desire to sell the half-acre park to an Ohio-based hotel owner evolved into a larger debate and into Tuesday's ballot referendum on the future of the city's many public parks. (AP Photo/Patrick Whittle)

Portland polarized by vote on sale of tiny park

Patrick Whittle · June 9, 2014 8:05 pm

Jeff Pyke places a note outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Moncton, New Brunswick, on Friday, June 6, 2014. The suspect in the killing of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police was arrested unarmed early Friday, ending a massive manhunt that paralyzed much of the eastern Canadian city. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)

Man suspected of killing Canadian Mounties caught

Patrick Whittle · June 7, 2014 12:21 am

Maine officials monitoring baby lobster count

Patrick Whittle · April 29, 2014 6:42 pm

FILE - In this June 2007, file photo, a scientist releases a juvenile lobster while doing research on Orr's Island in Harpswell, Maine. A University of Maine survey of 11 locations in the Gulf of Maine indicates the number of young lobsters has declined by more than half from their 2007 levels, a significant statistic, since lobsters typically take about eight years to reach the legal harvesting size. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Maine baby lobster decline could end high catches

Patrick Whittle · April 22, 2014 8:53 pm