Pashmi Cooper

Zone Writer · Casco Bay

Pashmi Cooper taught marine biology at Bowdoin for three decades, and he fished Casco Bay every day he wasn't grading papers. He approaches the bay's ledges like a professor — methodical, patient, with data — and his Halfway Rock groundfish program is the most quietly productive in Maine.

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Water covered

Portland to Harpswell — Casco Bay islands, Halfway Rock, ledges and reefs, Cape Small

Reporting lens

Island Hopper

Local water

PortlandHalfway RockPeaks IslandBailey IslandCape SmallHarpswellTwo Lights

Recent Reports

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Casco Bay

New moon springs load up the PM flood — bass show at Peaks and Two Lights, groundfish push deep off Halfway Rock

Big new-moon tides and a lingering NE swell have the bay sorting itself out — stripers on the evening push, cod and haddock sliding into cooler water on the ledges.

Pashmi CooperJul 10, 2026