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'Ah, freedom': Historic Penobscot dam removal begins (slideshow)
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The river restoration project will allow fish access to spawn deep in the heart of Maine.
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Atlantic Salmon Released into Aroostook River (video)
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Volunteers in Sheridan have been working for years to preserve a fish species here in Aroostook County. This week – as they do every year – they released thousands of Atlantic salmon into the river, after raising them for months. News Source 8′s Katie Zarrilli has more.
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Construction Workers Begin Veazie Dam Removal (video)
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Construction workers begin Veazie Dam removal.
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Downeast Lakes Land Trust touts new culvert design aimed at restoring trout habitats (video)
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Officials with Downeast Lakes Land Trust said earlier this week that a new project it completed with several partners and support from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has the potential to be a model for cost-effective restoration of aquatic habitats.
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DSF Removes Dam on Smelt Brook, in Sullivan!
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Barrier removal
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Egg by egg, Department of Marine resources restoring Atlantic salmon to Maine Rivers (video)
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State biologists working in shallow river tributaries reachable by dirt roads and snowmobile trails are on the front line of the battle against extinction of the Atlantic salmon. They visit the waterways in January and February, sometimes dragging their equipment on a plastic sled more than a mile to the sites, to mimic wild salmon spawning. They're planting thousands of eggs in the gravel of riverbeds, an effort mostly funded through a federal grant.
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Friends of fish helping get new ideas, waterways flowing (video)
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Maine is a water rich state, with thousands of miles of rivers and streams cutting through our fields and forests. There are also thousands of miles of public and private roads and trails that dissect the state, but in the past when it came to building crossings over those waterways the thought often was about how to get water from one side of the road to another, not about the fish trying to cross under the roads.
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Introducing Audubon's "Salmon Shorts" Videos
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Just a few hundred years ago, Atlantic Salmon were abundant up and down the northeast coast. Now, Maine is home to the last remaining wild populations of Atlantic Salmon in the United States and they are a federally recognized endangered species. This decline has had huge impacts on everything connected to salmon–traditional ways of living, wildlife up and down the food chain, and the health of our watersheds.
Beginning in 2018, Maine Audubon has participated annually in the Atlantic Salmon Federation’s educational Fish Friends program to highlight the significance of wild Atlantic Salmon. Raising salmon provides a concrete and accessible entry point into many topics that are important to our work: habitat needs and interdependence, stream connectivity and river restoration, and the power of bringing Traditional Ecological Knowledge together with western science. Through Fish Friends, participating classrooms and organizations like Maine Audubon receive eggs from local hatcheries and raise them through the beginning of their life cycle. Then, with expert guidance, the young salmon are released in local waterways.
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Magic on the River
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dam removal
habitat accessibility
restoration
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Maine's Penobscot River finally runs free after huge restoration project (video)
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For the first time in 200 years, the Penobscot River in northeastern Maine is running free.
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