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Article: Things may be looking up for salmon
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- Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2008
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John Richardson by John Richardson staff writer
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
08-30-2008
Things may be looking up for salmon
Byline: John Richardson by John Richardson staff writer
Edition: Final
Section: Front
Column: Down to Earth
Type: Cover Story
Atlantic salmon is one of Maine's true hard-luck species.
Rivers that once were filled with tens of thousands of the majestic fish each summer have seen the numbers steadily decline to, in some cases, 10 or 20 fish.
Even the intensive efforts to raise and release young salmon have seemed increasingly futile, with one in several hundred hatchery- raised fish somehow making the two-year-long journey to Greenland and back to spawn in its native river.
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