The court action is part of an ongoing legal struggle over the fate of the dams. Brookfield sued Maine state agencies last month with a complaint that the agencies acted improperly in drafting fish passage policies.
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Outdoors in Maine: Veazie Salmon Club arises from near extinction
In the 1980s and early 1990s, in May and June, you could catch a fresh run of Atlantic salmon on the Penobscot River. And you could play your king of game fish within eyeshot of downtown Bangor. As a result, salmon clubs popped up along the river banks like ostrich ferns. Those were heady times. […]
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Outdoors in Maine: A success story of the 'comeback' variety
When it comes to the quality of the sport fishery, once-fabled fishing lakes like Branch Lake, Green Lake and Beech Hill Pond have had their ups and downs. When I was a kid, Branch Lake was a red hot game fishery. Beech Hill gave up a record lake trout that has never been bested. In […]
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Two salmon negotiate Brunswick fishway in 2015
BRUNSWICK — The Androscoggin River used to host one of the most prolific runs of Atlantic salmon on the East Coast. A 1673 account from a commercial fishing operation in Brunswick reported fishermen pulled out 40 barrels of salmon in three weeks, according to the nonprofit group Maine Rivers. The only reason the anglers stopped was […]
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Bristol lobsterman catches salmon on Wilson Pond in Wilton
WILTON — Salmon and brook trout were taking bait fish on ice-fishing trap lines Friday morning on the eastern end of Wilson Pond, while most anglers waited out the wind inside their vehicles parked onshore. Wind chills were near zero with the air temperature 26 in and out of snow squalls coating the ice with […]
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Conservationists release 140,000 Atlantic salmon in Maine river
EAST MACHIAS (AP) — A Maine conservation organization says its effort to release more than 140,000 juvenile Atlantic salmon will help restore the fish’s run to the East Machias River. The Downeast Salmon Federation released the juvenile salmon into the river and many streams throughout the East Machias River watershed. The organization says the fish […]
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Warm temperatures make for comfy fishing derby in Norway
NORWAY — Anglers, both young and old, male and female, hit Pennesseewassee Lake on Saturday, each hoping to catch the biggest fish on the first of the annual two-day Norway-Paris Fish and Game Association fishing derby. “It’s usually not this easy; we were kind of excited,” said Association President Sylvia Bosse of the first fish […]
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Veazie Dam removal brings hope to salmon anglers
VEAZIE (AP) — Eighty-five-year-old Claude Westfall points to a photograph on the wall of the Veazie Salmon Club. In the 1992 photo, a smiling Westfall presents then-President George H. W. Bush with his prize: the first salmon pulled from the Penobscot River in the Bangor area that year. For nearly 80 years, the first salmon […]