Maine Fishing Regulations
Are you familiar with the fishing regulation in Maine?
It is never a bad idea to check it again before your next outing.
Maine Fishing License
Purchasing a fishing license you are helping to preserve the environment and also ensure that future generations can enjoy fishing as you are.
Among other things, your fishing license fees support fisheries and hatcheries management, education programs about fishing and conservation, protection of endangered species.
Here it is where you can get your fishing license.
Links to Maine Government Agencies
Here are a few websites of Maine's agencies involved in regulation and conservation.
Maine Fishing News
Check out what is the latest fishing buzz in Maine.
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Maine Turnpike Exit 53 lane closure begins next week in Falmouth
- FALMOUTH — The Maine Turnpike interchange bridge at Exit 53 (West Falmouth) will be reduced to one-lane traffic beginning Monday, Feb. 13, as improvements are made to its surface. A one-lane configuration is needed to allow crews to remove and ...
- Sun-Journal
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- 2/6/2012 11:39:11 AM
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President Obama to visit Maine
- SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - President Barack Obama will be attending a fundraiser in Southern Maine in late March. Obama for ME announced Monday morning that Obama will be meeting with supporters at a fundraiser in South Portland on Friday ...
- WCSH
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- 2/6/2012 8:47:23 AM
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Deadline looms for Occupy Maine
- PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Time is almost up for Occupy Maine. Protesters have been ordered to vacate a Portland park by 8 a.m. Monday or face arrest. The protesters busied themselves Sunday taking down tents and other structures, although they said some were
- WCSH
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- 2/6/2012 4:22:32 AM
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Panel works toward Maine budget package
- AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Maine legislators working toward a bipartisan agreement to fill a $221 million state budget hole are making progress. The Appropriations Committee has finalized $25 million in savings recommended by a special task force. In addition
- WCSH
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- 2/5/2012 11:14:43 PM
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Maine mustache film festival set
- PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- The organizers of what's billed as New England's largest mustache pageant are now launching the world's first known mustache film festival. No Umbrella Media says its International Moustache Film Festival will be held immediately ..
- WCSH
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- 2/5/2012 11:14:43 PM
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Maine fishing chief aims for growth
- HALLOWELL, Maine (AP) -- Maine's new marine resources commissioner is vowing to grow the economic value of the state's commercial fishing industry and the coastal communities that rely on the ocean. The value of the state's seafood harvest can top $400 ...
- WCSH
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- 2/5/2012 10:31:46 PM
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Valentines arrive for Care and Share Food Closet
- FARMINGTON — Some local businesses are stepping up to help feed people in need through the Care and Share Food Closet. The closet provided a few days of food once a month to nearly 9,000 people last year, a thousand more than the previous year ...
- Sun-Journal
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- 2/5/2012 10:24:37 PM
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Richard Bennett: Keeping Maine values in Maine elections
- In Maine, we value what is outside our doors. We hike and we swim. We hunt and we fish. All through the year, we head to the ocean, a lake, the mountains, or a river to enjoy what each season has to offer. And this is true whether we are ...
- Sun-Journal
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- 2/4/2012 8:09:48 PM
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Occupy Maine packs up, but strongly voices their message
- PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Occupiers in Portland have been told to pack up and move out, but that doesn't mean their anti-Wall Street message is getting any weaker. Occupiers spent the day disassembling their tents and gathering their belongings.
- WCSH
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- 2/4/2012 5:03:41 PM
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'Meet Your Farmers' to offer fresh produce, fish
- "Meet Your Farmers and Fishermen" and get your share of the Maine harvest at a celebration of community supported agriculture and fisheries in your community between Friday and Sunday, Feb. 24 and 26. In the "community supported" model of local ...
- Sun-Journal
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- 2/3/2012 8:46:46 PM
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U. Maine students offering free tax counseling
- ORONO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- If you're going through the seasonal pain of trying to get your taxes done, you might want to consider stopping by the Orono Public Library on Fridays. Accounting students at the University of Maine are once again providing .
- WCSH
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- 2/3/2012 3:10:20 PM
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Maine Republican Caucus underway
- PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- After watching political coverage in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida, it's finally Maine's turn. Republicans all across the state will be caucusing for their candidates this weekend. A handful of communities
- WCSH
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- 2/3/2012 1:01:29 PM
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River Valley Outdoors
- Family and friends that know me also understand my passion for hunting and ice fishing in snowy weather – and my need for an off-trail sled for Maine’s extreme winter conditions. Over the passed few years, I have been searching for the ...
- Rumford Falls Times
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- 2/2/2012 8:55:07 PM
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Maine treasure hunters claim to find $3B WWII wreck
- PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A treasure hunter said he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during World War II while carrying what he claims was a load of platinum bars now worth more than $3 billi
- WCSH
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- 2/2/2012 12:26:53 PM
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Feds list Gulf of Maine sturgeon as ‘threatened’
- BATH — The National Marine Fisheries Service on Tuesday listed Atlantic sturgeon in the Gulf of Maine — and the Kennebec River ... The service will now develop regulations to protect the fish.
- Times Record
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- 2/2/2012 10:39:30 AM
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ELECTRICITY MAINE
- Electricity Maine is a Maine owned and operated electricity supplier serving residential and small businesses in the CMP and Bangor Hydro territories. Electricity Maine is the largest electricity supplier in the state offering power at rates less than the
- WCSH
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- 2/1/2012 8:20:30 PM
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Portland Mayor meets with Maine Governor
- AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - After the Mayor of Portland denounced social service cuts proposed by Governor LePage, the Governor invited the Mayor to hash out money saving ideas. On Monday, Mayor Michael Brennan criticized LePage's proposed cuts to ...
- WCSH
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- 2/1/2012 3:55:39 PM
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Super Bowl XLVI organizer is from Maine
- INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (NEWS CENTER) - The woman organizing the biggest sporting event in professional football is from Auburn, Maine. Allison Melangton is the President-C.E.O. of the Super Bowl Host Committee. Lee Goldberg talks with her about her ...
- WCSH
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- 2/1/2012 3:19:52 PM
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Hundreds of students attend career fair at U Maine
- ORONO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- Students at the University of Maine got to look into some of the opportunities available in the career world on Wednesday. The university held its annual career fair throughout Wednesday morning and afternoon at the campus ..
- WCSH
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- 2/1/2012 1:25:20 PM
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Maine girl heads home after multiple organ transplant
- BOSTON (AP) -- A 9-year-old Maine girl is heading home after a groundbreaking multiple organ transplant at Children's Hospital Boston. Alannah Shevenell of Hollis underwent 14 hours of surgery in October to remove an aggressive tumor and to undergo a ...
- WCSH
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- 2/1/2012 4:35:37 AM
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Maine students need help making Fenway documentary
- (NEWS CENTER) -- Fenway Park is turning 100 years old, and to help ring in the birthday, students from Maine who attend Emerson College in Boston started a production company called Red Seat Productions. Jacob Ouellette of Sanford founded the production ..
- WCSH
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- 2/1/2012 4:14:08 AM
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Maine boy scores 2nd incredible goal at TD Garden
- PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- A young hockey player from Cumberland is making a splash once again with a trick shot that even the pros would admire. At the age of nine, Oliver Wahlstrom became an internet sensation with a move he put on a goalie in ...
- WCSH
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- 1/31/2012 9:54:45 PM
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Fish story amy spawn suspicion
- The Globe hired a laboratory in Canada to test its fish. Sun Spots does not know of any lab in Maine that would undertake the task. Anyway, the DNA test to determine whether your fish is really haddock would cost far more than the fish is worth.
- Sun-Journal
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- 1/31/2012 8:28:51 PM
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Gas prices in Maine creep up once again
- ORONO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- You may have noticed gas prices are beginning to creep up again, and we're all feeling the pain at the pump. Jim McConnon is an Economics Professor at the University of Maine. Citing the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report Tuesday ...
- WCSH
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- 1/31/2012 3:21:03 PM
Maine Guides/Outfitters
Want to learn a new fishing technique or need some help for you next outing? Check out one of the guide/outfitter services listed below.
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Maine Fishing Clubs
Want to join an interest group near you?
Look up the following list of fishing clubs in Maine.
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Post a Club Referral and we will update this list.