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FWS employees moving atlantic salmon fry from Hatchery internal nursery tanks to outer growing pools

(Salmo salar)

Two hundred years ago, at least 34 of New England’s coastal rivers had wild runs of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). However, impediments such as dams, pollution, habitat loss, changes in water temperatures, overfishing, etc have reduced the mighty fish to a few rivers in Maine. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service declared the Atlantic salmon as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in November 2000. The Green Lake NFH, Maine is the only hatchery stocking Maine’s rivers with Atlantic salmon smolts and is dedicated to restoring wild Atlantic salmon to the Penobscot. St. Croix, Merrimack and Saco Rivers - all major rivers which have lost their native salmon. Photo taken 1/12/01 by Robert Pos/Fishery Biologist (electronic image only)

Author: Pos, Robert H. Fishery Biologist/USFWS

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