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Fish & Chips: TNC's fish habitat restoration on a local potato farm
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The Nature Conservancy helps fish, people, and potato chips
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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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Greenlandic Fishery Continues to Catch Imperiled Atlantic Salmon
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Press release from NOAA Fisheries summarizing the 2015 annual meeting of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization meeting in Goose Bay, Canada.
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Historic removal of Veazie Dam gets under way
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When the project is complete, sea-run fish - such as salmon, sturgeon, alewives and shad - will have significantly improved access to about 1,000 miles of upstream habitat.
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Legislature sends St. Croix alewife restoration bill to LePage
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Emergency legislation to open the St. Croix River watershed to sea-run alewives easily won passage Wednesday in the Maine Senate and House. The bill, LD 72, now goes to Gov. Paul LePage, who has 10 days to sign, veto or let the bill become law.
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Letters to the editor: Yarmouth Harbor life dependent on removing silt
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Eugenie Francine’s Nov. 29 op-ed piece on removal of two Royal River dams (“Maine Voices: Royal River’s journey to future should begin with removal of lower dam”) makes the case for a free-flowing river eloquently, but dismisses the concerns of the advocates for the impoundment above the upper dam and for the harbor.
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Maine alewives begin a legislative run
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A legislative committee has endorsed a measure that would open most of the St. Croix River to alewives, a small schooling fish, by the end of this month. L.D. 72 received unanimous support from the Marine Resources Committee on Monday. As an emergency bill, it needs two-thirds approval from the full House and Senate and would take effect immediately. The votes could come as early as Wednesday.
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Maine plans emergency debate on fish passage
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Maine’s state legislature is getting ready to debate an emergency bill that could see the St. Croix River re-opened this spring to gaspereau, ending a controversy that has spanned almost 20 years.
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Maine Voices: Lessons of controversial salmon hearings more relevant today
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Despite dire predictions, listing salmon as endangered hasn't hurt the blueberry or forest-products industries.
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Maine Voices: Royal River's journey to future should begin with removal of lower dam
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The regional land trust wants the dam gone while the community decides the upper dam’s fate.
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