At the beginning of the Holocene epoch 11,000 years ago, the Gulf of Maine's sea level fell as low as 180 feet (55 m) below its present height.

The American besiegers became stalled in their assaults due to dissension between Solomon Lovell and Dudley Saltonstall, two of the expedition's commanders, and after a British flotilla led by George Collier arrived on August 13, the American fleet fled, beaching and burning their ships in the face of a superior British force.

Discharge treatment was primarily dilution until the mid 20th century when the federal government began requiring communities and businesses of all states to meet water pollution control standards.

The investigation found that the sewage from eleven towns and effluents of thirteen businesses and one university facility were the chief sources of the pollution.

19, Pages 241-265 details some of these early ventures, as these excerpts reveal: In 1847 Captain Oakes purchased the smack Josephine, with which he began running to Johnson & Young's establishment, at Boston, in 1848, buying a portion of his lobsters in the Penobscot Bay region, where this fishery had just been started.

In 1879, Captain Davis bought from 15 men In the same locality, and at times was obliged to buy also of others in order to make up a load.The fishery at North Haven began in 1848, but did not increase so rapidly at first as in sections farther west, as the smacks would only take the medium-sized lobsters, fearing that the largest would not be able to stand the trip.

In 1852 the people on Deer Island began the fishery, and as the smackmen made frequent visits the business rapidly increased.

The fishery was started at Isle Au Haute about 1855, and at Swan Island in the early fifties.Groups with chief focus on Penobscot Bay or parts thereof.