GulfOfMe.com
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== Gulf of Maine, Inc.' ==Marine Life Supply Company
Contact
- GULF OF MAINE
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- PEMBROKE ME
- US 04666
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- (207) 726-4799
Description
Gulf of Maine, Inc. also offers preserved specimens. Our clients tell us that we have the freshest and best preserved marine specimens available. Collects and supplies live and preserved cold-water Atlantic marine animal and plant specimens for use in research and educational applications
.We specialize in the collection of live marine algae and invertebrate animals from the Gulf of Maine and its cold Atlantic waters. We ship live specimens from many marine phyla.
Gulf of Maine Marine Life Supply Company is a unique cooperative effort that promotes sustainable marine resource use. We provide quality, affordable marine lab specimens to research and teaching professionals across the country and the globe, and develop and promote innovative marine education products for students.
Our success is based on two advantages of our location on Cobscook Bay in Maine. One, we represent a working group of aquaculturists, commercial fisherman, scuba divers who help us obtain our products. Secondly, the nature of intense local tides and currents creates upwellings that boost the biological productivity of the gulf and local bays. Consequently the size, health and vigor of the specimens we collect and offer are unrivaled in the lab and specimen marketplace. We do most of our collecting in Cobscook Bay - a unique and productive marine environment that owes its bounty to the effects of a daily 20' tide! Here millions of gallons of seawater enter and leave the bay creating rich upwellings of nutrients and providing powerful flushing action. The productivity is unparalleled and the biodiversity is phenomenal!
At Marine Life Supply Company we pride ourselves in sharing the economic benefits of this sustainable resource in our local communities. We are also proud to be stewarding and monitoring biodiversity to the benefit of future generations of all organisms that live here.
The organisms we offer come from a variety of sources. They are obtained from scuba divers, hand collection, aquaculture operations, and from commercial fishing by-catch. In all cases, steps are followed to insure that the collections are made in a conscientious manner which will minimize the environmental impact. The focus is on sustainability. We do not collect any rare or endangered species. We are fully licensed by the Maine Dept. of Marine Resources as collectors and dealers of marine organisms.
One of the intrinsic goals of this business operation is to share the gift of the sea with people, students, and scientists everywhere. We always hope that the specimens we ship will be used to their fullest potential. We feel that by educating the children and the public of the world about marine life, we will be fostering values that will lead to stewardship of the world's oceans and the marine life found there for the years to come.
