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Rising Tides - Adapting to Coastal Maine's Future
Rising Tides: Adapting to Coastal Maine’s Future captures the voices of people living and working along Maine’s changing coast. Through long-form conversations with oyster farmers and other aquaculturalists, fishermen, scientists, and community leaders, the series explores how environmental, economic, and cultural forces are reshaping the working waterfront.
Maine’s coast sits on the frontlines of global change. Warming waters, shifting fisheries, new industries, and increasing pressure on access and infrastructure are transforming ways of life that have endured for generations. Rather than focusing on headlines or ideology, Rising Tides listens closely to lived experience – how people are adapting, what is being lost, and what might still be preserved.
These are local stories with global relevance, told thoughtfully and without haste, offering insight into the challenges and possibilities facing coastal communities in Maine and beyond.
Rising Tides - Adapting to Coastal Maine's Future
Latest Episodes
Rising Tides: Two Scallop Farms, Two Bets — with Dana Morse
Two Maine scallop farms are betting on two different futures: one building a premium shucked-meat business, the other building a market for whole, live scallops — a market that depends on testing infrastructure more fragile than it looks.
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Rising Tides: Mere Point Oyster and a Love of the Coast — with Dan Devereux
Dan Devereux has spent more than thirty years working Maine's coast. He'll tell you the hardest part has never been the oysters.In this episode of Rising Tides, Bill Perna speaks with Dan Devereux, co-founder of Mere Point Oyster Company...
Rising Tides: Johns River Oyster and a 4,000-Year-Old Tradition — with David Cheney
Maine's Damariscotta River has been producing oysters for thousands of years. The shell middens that line its banks — some rising 31 vertical feet — are evidence that Native Americans were harvesting here at commercial scale long before lobster...
Rising Tides: Turning Waste into Value on the Maine Coast – with Liam Fisher
Maine's working waterfront generates enormous amounts of waste — fish heads, viscera, eel trim — material that processors pay to get rid of. Liam Fisher thinks that's an opportunity hiding in plain sight.In this episode of Rising Tides, ...
Rising Tides: The Hidden Work Behind Maine’s Coastal Economy – with Dana Morse
Maine’s coastal economy is being quietly reshaped by new industries, new pressures, and the people working to connect them. In this episode of Rising Tides, Bill Perna speaks with Dana Morse about what it really takes to support a chan...