Midcoast Maine Fishing Heritage Alliance

The Alliance

Welcome

Welcome and thanks for your support. The Midcoast Maine Fishing Heritage Alliance was founded in the Summer of 2009 with the express purpose of helping to preserve the fishing way of life in Midcoast Maine. Based in Port Clyde, Maine, the Alliance was founded by a group of concerned community members and fishermen who wanted to create a non-profit entity that could help in the fight to preserve what has been a way of life in these waters for centuries.

We are actively seeking donations at this time to support our programs for vessel maintenance and repair as well as our other initiatives.

Membership and Donations

We are a membership-based organization, pooling the resources of the community to support our local fisheries. We need your support to help preserve this part of our local heritage. Please become a member today, and consider a donation to help support our mission.

Our Mission

The Midcoast Maine Fishing Heritage Alliance is dedicated to actively working to sustain our local fishery, the central aspect of our community's cultural heritage.

Not every family in Midcoast Maine is a fishing family in the direct sense. But every family is connected to the fishery in some way, and we strive to tap the deep pool of interest in and support for the fishery in our community.

As a non-profit charitable organization, the Alliance’s role will be to increase public awareness about both the historic and contemporary importance of the fishing industry to the communities of Midcoast Maine. The Alliance will work to expand upon the gains made by the fishermen of the Midcoast fleet in recent years, in their leadership in the effort to ensure the fish population remains healthy and that sustainable fishing practices are being used consistently. Our educational and service projects will seek to meet the needs of residents of Midcoast Maine and to engage the many visitors who spend time in our communities in the summertime.