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Proceedings of the first virtual CMS Public Meeting
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The proceedings, slides, minutes, and Q&A session from the 5/28/2020 meeting are now available for public viewing and comment
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Public Webinar: 2021 Atlantic Salmon Habitat Restoration Partnership Grants
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funding opportunity webinar
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Rainbow Smelt (Osmerus mordax)
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Rainbow smelt illustration
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Rainbow smelt illustration.
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Rainbow smelt illustration
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Rainbow smelt illustration.
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Reconnecting the Penobscot River with the Sea: Breaching Veazie Dam on Maine's Penobscot River
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Today, a local contractor (Sargent Corporation, Old Town) will begin to remove the Veazie Dam, re-opening the Penobscot River from Old Town, Maine to the sea for the first time in nearly 200 years. The removal of the 830-foot long, 30 foot high buttress-style Veazie Dam, built in 1913, is a monumental step in the Penobscot River Restoration Project, among the largest river restoration efforts in the nation's history. Just last week, another local contractor (R.F. Jordan & Sons Construction, Inc., Ellsworth) completed advance demolition work on the facility's smaller "Plant-B" powerhouse to prepare for the removal of the main dam.
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Removal of Veazie Dam Begins on Maine's Penobscot River
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Removal of Veazie Dam begins on Maine's Penobscot River.
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Removal of Veazie Dam to free historic paddling route on Penobscot
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Water burst through the Veazie Dam on July 22, a day that marked the beginning of its destruction. By the end of the year, the river will flow free. And after the ice melts next spring, canoeists and kayakers will be able to paddle from Old Town to the Atlantic, unimpeded, for the first time in nearly 200 years.
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Restoring Spawning Habitat for Maine Sea-run Fish
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The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) announced it has now restored access to 15,000 acres of ponds and lakes and 300 miles of river for Maine’s native sea-run fish. These achievements are part of ASF’s Maine Headwaters Project that is focused on restoring critical spawning habitat to sea-run fish in tributaries identified as high priorities in State of Maine fisheries restoration plans. While the target species are Atlantic salmon and alewives, these restoration projects provide a broad range of benefits for all fish and wildlife along the river corridor.
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Return of alewives on St. Croix River celebrated (video)
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For nearly 20 years, conservationists and, at times, state natural resource agencies, have sought to open the St. Croix River watershed to alewives. Those river herring had their passage at dam fishways officially blocked in 1995 due to concerns that their presence had led to a collapse of the smallmouth bass fishery in nearby Spednic Lake.
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