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GM salmon can breed with wild fish and pass on genes

Posted by Kevin McKay, 04 June 2013 · 76 views

By Rebecca Morelle
Science reporter, BBC World Service

Scientists from Canada have found that transgenic Atlantic salmon can cross-breed with a closely related species - the brown trout.
The fish, which have been engineered with extra genes to make them grow more quickly, pass on this trait to the hybrid offspring.
The research is p...

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Restoring Spawning Habitat for Maine’s Sea-Run Fish

Posted by Kevin McKay, 09 May 2013 · 160 views

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.

Brunswick, ME (PRWEB) April 25, 2013
The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) announced it has now restored access to 15,000 acres of ponds and lakes and 300 miles of river fo...

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Maine Audubon seeks northern Maine anglers

Posted by Kevin McKay, 07 May 2013 · 92 views

AROOSTOOK COUNTY, Maine - Maine Audubon, Trout Unlimited and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) are seeking volunteer anglers to survey remote ponds in western and northern Maine for brook trout this coming fishing season. Survey information collected by anglers will be used by the nonprofit organizations and IFW to help identify...

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Invasive fish threats in the St. John and Fish River watersheds – what’s next?

Posted by Kevin McKay, 02 May 2013 · 167 views

By Jeremiah Wood, Fisheries Biologist, Fish River Lakes Region
for more Maine IF&W news: http://www.maine.gov...ctivities.htm

For more than a century the Fish River drainage in northern Maine has been prized for its world class coldwater sport fishery, but with the establishment and expansion o...

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Piscataquis anglers cautioned to be on lookout for stocked Atlantic salmon smolts

Posted by Kevin McKay, 11 April 2013 · 160 views

by John Holoyoke
Each year anglers flock to the Piscataquis River to take advantage of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s ambitious fish-stocking efforts near Guilford and Dover-Foxcroft.
Anglers should be aware, however, that the DIF&W is not the only agency stocking fishing fish in the Piscataquis: The Maine Department of Marine...

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World's first land-based-farm sockeye salmon ready for harvest in B.C.

Posted by Kevin McKay, 29 March 2013 · 167 views

B.C. seafood firm Willowfield Enterprises will begin harvesting next week the world’s first commercial supply of sockeye salmon raised on a land-based farm.
The Langley fish farm expects to produce up to 500 kilograms of sockeye a week under the West Creek brand...

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Restore Alewives to the St. Croix River!!!

Posted by Kevin McKay, 22 March 2013 · 80 views

Here is an email I recieved:

Restore Alewives to the St. Croix River!!!

On Monday, March 25^th at 9 AM the Marine Resources Committee of the Maine Legislature will hold a public hearing on several bills that will allow alewives back into the St. Croix River watershed above the Grand Falls Dam.

ASF is...

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Salmon in the Classroom Project Concludes at Boise-Eliot/Humboldt Elementary School

Posted by Kevin McKay, 14 March 2013 · 102 views

In the culmination of their three-month long participation in “Salmon in the Classroom,” nearly 100 fourth- and fifth-grade students took a 70-mile field trip Wednesday into the Columbia River Gorge to release a tankful of Chinook salmon fry in Washington’s Drano...

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Warden’s legacy one of hope, determination

Posted by Kevin McKay, 09 February 2013 · 246 views

Back in April, and again in May, then once again in June, I chatted with Maj. Gregory Sanborn about the challenges he faced.

Sanborn, the deputy chief of the Maine Warden Service, didn’t talk about budget constraints. He wasn’t worried about public reaction to the reality TV show — “North Woods Law” — that focused on the men he helped lead. He didn’t talk...

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