TIMES RECORD • July 9, 2021
Friends of Merrymeeting Bay (FOMB) is a membership nonprofit working since 1975 to protect the unique ecosystems of Merrymeeting Bay through research, advocacy, land conservation and education. Nearly 40% of Maine waters drain via six tributaries into and through the Bay enroute to the Gulf of Maine. Because a healthy Gulf is vital to the Bay and vice versa, our work extends regionally. Home to a dozen rare plants, the Bay is also the only place in Maine providing spawning and nursery habitat for all 12 diadromous fish species in the Gulf of Maine, some of them endangered or threatened.