NOAA was ordered to cut off $4.5 million in funding to Maine Sea Grant, one of 34 state-based university sea grant programs that support research on marine and Great Lakes issues to help local economies. The University of Maine was told its efforts (unlike the other 33 programs, so far) were “no longer relevant to the focus of the Administration’s priorities.” Among the first to object was the Maine Lobstermen’s Assn., saying the loss would “have a negative effect on both our economy and our environment.”
