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- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is one of the lead federal agencies involved in Atlantic salmon and sea-run fish recovery in Maine. The agency has several offices around the state, listed alphabetically below, that work together and with partners to implement conservation actions.
- Atlantic Salmon (Wikipedia)
- Wikipedia's entry on Atlantic Salmon.
- What is "Atlantic salmon"? (LifeSun)
- A description of Atlantic Salmon by LifeSun.
- USFWS Maine Field Office
- The Ecological Services program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is responsible for the conservation and restoration of fish and wildlife and their habitats. Maine Field Office biologists investigate the effects of contaminants and recover damages for injuries to Department of the Interior trust resources caused by oil or chemical releases. We also help recover threatened and endangered species and review proposals for wetland and stream alterations from many types of development. We recommend measures to enhance fish and wildlife resources in conjunction with the licensing of energy generation facilities and other Federal projects such as shoreline protection, navigation and flood control, etc. Our work with private individuals, organizations, and other State and Federal agencies protects, restores and enhances fish and wildlife habitat on private, State, and Federal lands. Our office also provides the public with information about the value and benefits derived from the conservation and restoration of fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats.
- Salmon recovery pleases conservation group
- Efforts to boost the numbers of wild Atlantic salmon in eastern P.E.I. are showing signs of success. Staff of the Souris and area wildlife federation have just finished a three-week survey of all rivers in the area. They say they're finding record numbers of Atlantic salmon nests, also called redds, by fisheries scientists.
- Research Helps Address Climate Change Impacts
- Climate Science Centers are awarding nearly $7 million to universities and other partners for research as part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan.
- Veazie Dam Comes Down
- A breaching of the Veazie Dam, lowermost obstruction on the Penobscot River, was celebrated July 22, 2013. The removal is a major milestone in the restoration of the Penobscot River.
- Veazie Dam: Freeing the East Channel
- On October 10, 2013 the Sargent Corp. breached the cofferdam that allowed them to remove the main section of the Veazie Dam. After breaching, workers trucked materials to the other side of the cofferdam to extend it back to the west shoreline so they could continue removing the foundation of the forebay wall, the remainder of the fish ladder, and other infrastructure near the Veazie powerhouse. The east channel of the Penobscot River at this site now flows freely over bedrock for the first time in 100 years!
- Veazie Dam Removal Ceremony & Breaching
- On July 16 2013 over 300 people were present for the ceremony which included speeches from key member organizations and partners, the Burnurwurbskek Singers, smudge ceremony, and the eventual breaching of the dam.
- Veazie Dam Removal Update: Progress on Freeing the West Channel
- October 23, 2013
- Friends of fish helping get new ideas, waterways flowing (video)
- 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.
- Stream Smart Road Crossing Workshops
- A partnership of conservation groups in Maine are leading a statewide effort to educate professionals who are responsible for road-stream crossings on how to improve stream habitat by creating better crossings.
- Maine Atlantic Salmon Trap Count Statistics
- Maine Department of Marine Resources, Bureau of Sea-Run Fisheries and Habitat staff conduct routine monitoring of the abundance and status of adult Atlantic salmon and other fish species in many Maine rivers. MDMR Staff operates on the Penobscot River (Milford Dam), Androscoggin River (Brunswick Dam), and Narraguagus River (Cherryfield Dam). Brookfield Renewable Partners operates traps on the Kennebec River (Lockwood Dam), the Union River (Ellsworth Dam), The Penobscot River (Orono Dam) and at two hydroelectric projects on the Saco River (Skelton and Cataract Dams). The St. Croix Waterway Commission operates a trap at the Milltown Dam on the St. Croix River. Benton Falls Associates operates a trap on the Sebasticook River (Benton Falls Dam). Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp operates a trap on the Aroostook River (Tinker Dam). These fish counting facilities are typically operated from May through early November each year. Staff update the statewide trap catch summary weekly or more often during the peak of the fish migrations. The statewide trap catch table includes counts of sea-run salmon captured on Maine rivers and salmon removed from the river as broodstock for restocking of Maine rivers and DOES NOT include captures of aquaculture strays or captive reared adult salmon released from Federal hatcheries.
- Maine Voices: Royal River's journey to future should begin with removal of lower dam
- The regional land trust wants the dam gone while the community decides the upper dam’s fate.
- Letters to the editor: Yarmouth Harbor life dependent on removing silt
- 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.
- Egg by egg, Department of Marine resources restoring Atlantic salmon to Maine Rivers (video)
- 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.
- Down East salmon hatchery expansion under way in East Machias
- The Downeast Salmon Federation took delivery this week on 53,000 North Atlantic salmon eggs that will be among 125,000 to be incubated and reared to “parr” stage over the next nine months for release into the East Machias River watershed in Washington County.
- Maine plans emergency debate on fish passage
- 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.
- Upstream Battle: Fishes Shun Modern Dam Passages, Contributing to Population Declines
- A river study in the U.S. Northeast has found that many fish species are unable to use standard passageways to swim past dams on their spawning runs.
- Alewives Will Help Smallmouth Bass
- Letting alewives up the St. Croix River will not hurt smallmouth bass, says Maine’s Commissioner of Marine Resources Patrick Keliher. “No, except getting fatter,” he said in a telephone interview Thursday, meaning that the smallmouth bass introduced to the St. Croix in 1877 feed on the native anadromous alewife – also called river herring and gaspereau.
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