BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 28, 2025
Commercial Fisheries News came to an end with its December edition in the face of declining advertising revenue, a changing media landscape and the retirement of its current senior editor, Stonington native Brian Robbins. The closure is another casualty in the shrinking news landscape and represents changes in how people find and share information today. It also marks the end of a local institution rooted in Stonington that reached around 5,000 subscribers, which for years focused on telling the stories of people in Maine’s iconic fishing and boatbuilding industries.