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Article: MAINE'S ATLANTIC SALMON
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 15, 2006
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The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife issued the following news release:
Atlantic salmon were once plentiful in Maine's Rivers, providing a recreational and commercial fishery for many years. Ninety years ago, a tradition was born when the first salmon caught in the Bangor Salmon Pool on the Penobscot River was delivered to the President of the United States. When the population of salmon plummeted in the early nineteen nineties, the tradition ended. Today, Maine is the only state in the United States with a remnant wild population of Atlantic salmon. Like the Presidential Salmon of the 20th century, this is a mark of distinction we hold as a State. Atlantic salmon are a ...