Atlantic Salmon
Activists Want Maine River Turbines Shut Down
PORTLAND PRESS HERALD: Two Maine-based environmental organizations are seeking a federal court order to shut down turbines at four hydroelectric dams on the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers this spring. Shutting down the turbines, which are in Brunswick, Waterville, Skowhegan...
Atlantic Salmon Decimated by Parasite, Says Report
Daily Mail: Nearly 40% of Atlantic salmon is being killed by parasites, researchers believe. A study found that 39% of the fish are being lost to the parasitic salmon louse, which spreads from fish to fish and feeds on...
Atlantic Salmon Stocked in CT’s Naugatuck River
The state of Connecticut has begun its annual stocking of Atlantic salmon in the Naugatuck River. On Friday, September 28, 200 salmon in the 2- to 6-pound range were released into the upper Naugatuck River in and around Exit...
Feds End CT River Salmon Restoration Effort
Kennebec Journal: The federal government is ending its conservation effort to restore Atlantic salmon in the Connecticut River basin because the nearly half-century old program that has stocked about 100 million small fish in tributaries throughout western New England...
Hopes High for Returning Maine Salmon
The Portland Press Herald is reporting that biologists, conservation groups and anglers are hoping for another strong run of Atlantic salmon returning to Maine rivers in 2012. So far, numbers of salmon counted at the Veazie Dam in Bangor...
CT Students Raise Salmon in Classroom
New Haven Register: Students from Foote School in New Haven released Atlantic salmon fry into the Connecticut River Watershed Friday at the Salmon River. They had raised the salmon from eggs in their classrooms. The 6th- and 9th-graders spent...
Genetically Altered Salmon Faces Opposition
Boston.com: AquaBounty Technologies, a Waltham company that has created a genetically engineered Atlantic salmon, is treading water while it waits for the Food and Drug Administration to decide whether it can sell its fast-growing fish to the public. The...
More Atlantic Salmon Returning to Northeast
An article in the New York Times reports that increased numbers of adult Atlantic salmon are returning to their natal rivers and streams in the Northeast in 2011. The increase has been witnessed throughout the salmon’s range, giving anglers,...
RI Stocking Ponds for Ice-Fishing Season
Providence Journal: Rhode Island officials are stocking ponds in the state with salmon and trout ahead of the winter ice-fishing season. The Department of Environmental Management says the Division of Fish and Wildlife will stock 100 Atlantic salmon and...
Maine Dam Owners Being Sued Over Salmon
Morning Sentinel: Two Maine environmental groups are suing the owners of dams on the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers for failing to protect the rivers’ populations of Atlantic salmon, which are on the federal Endangered Species List. The lawsuits was...
