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Atlantic Salmon

Atlantic Salmon History Project (website)
The Atlantic Salmon History Project is a reference source for historic documents that illustrate the character, abundance and decline of the Atlantic salmon and other native migratory fish species in the rivers of New England.
Compiled by Doug Watts, Friends of the Kennebec Salmon
Atlantic Salmon in Maine - Report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) (web page)
Date: 2004
Atlantic Salmon Recovery Framework (pdf file 1.1 MB)
NMFS, MDMR, USFWS, PIN
August 2010 Draft
Connectivity Presentation for Draft Atlantic Salmon Recovery Plan (pdf file 5 MB)
National Marine Fisheries Service
Excerpts from above NAS report & related press release
compiled & written by Friends of Kennebec Salmon
Date: 2005
More excerpts from above NAS report AND some background information
primarily compiled & written by Friends of Kennebec Salmon, with additions by Ed Friedman, Friends of Merrymeeting Bay
Date: 2004/05
Friends of the Kennebec Salmon (website)
A non-profit group of volunteers dedicated to restoring wild Atlantic salmon to their native home in Maine's Kennebec River.
Doug Watts
Augusta, ME
Information about the Atlantic Salmon's Endangered Species status (website)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Maine's Diadromous Fish Community: Past, Present, and Implications for Atlantic Salmon Recovery (pdf; File size: 979 KB)
Rory Saunders, Michael A. Hachey, & Clem W. Fay
Fisheries, Vol. 31, No. 11. (November, 2006)
Times Record Opinion Article (pdf; File size: 60 KB)
Ed Friedman
September 9, 2009
Pierce Atwood Web Article (pdf; File size: 42 KB)
May 27, 2008
Pierce Atwood Web Article (pdf; File size: 126 KB)
July 17, 2009
Atlantic Salmon (web page)
By Henry B. Bigelow and William C. Schroeder
FISHERY BULLETIN 74
FISHERY BULLETIN OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Volume 53
[Contribution No. 592, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE - Washington: 1953

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