Fish, Wildlife, Plants & Habitat in Merrymeeting Bay including information on salmon, American eel, sea lamprey, anadromous fish restoration, sturgeon, habitat, turtles, wetlands, Maine Natural Areas Program survey & many other topics.
- A Duck Farmer Blew the Whistle on Wetlands (pdf: File size: 1 MB)
Charles Berry Jr
South Dakota Magazine
July-August 1989 -
American Eels (pdf: File size: 493 KB)
Restoring a Vanishing Resource in the Gulf of Main -
Androscoggin River Anadromous Fish Restoration Program (pdf: File size: 1.25 MB)
Maine Department of Marine Resources
Date: September 15, 2006 - Androscoggin River Watershed Comprehensive Plan for Diadromous Fishes. (pdf: File size: 6.6 MB)
NOAA Fisheries. 2020. Greater Atlantic Region Policy Series 20-01.
NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office - www.greateratlantic.fisheries.noaa.gov/policyseries/ -
Anecdotes and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome of Fisheries (pdf: File size: 125 KB)
Daniel Pauly
TREE vol. 10, no. 10 October 1995 - Atlantic Coast Diadromous Fish Habitat:
A Review of Utilization,Threats, Recommendations for Conservation, and Research Needs.
Habitat Management Series #9
January 2009-
Note: these are pdf files
Cover, Title and Acknowledgement
Table of Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction
Ch. 2. American shad
Ch. 3. Hickory shad
Ch. 4. Alewife
Ch. 5. Blueback herring
Ch. 6. Habitat Areas of Particular Concern for Alosines
Ch. 7. American Eel
Ch. 8. Atlantic sturgeon
Ch. 9. Striped Bass
Ch. 10. Threats to diadromous species
Ch. 11. Diadromous Fish habitat Conservation and Restoration Recommendations
Ch. 12. Future habitat Research Information Needs for diadromous species
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Note: these are pdf files
- Atlantic Cod Stock Structure in the Gulf of Maine (pdf file 2 MB)
Ted Ames
vol 29 no 1,
Fisheries Magazine - Atlantic salmon in a rapidly changing environment--Facing the Challenges of Reduced Marine Survival and Climate Change (pdf file 162 KB)
Thorstad et al
Aquatic Conserv: Mar Freshw Ecosyst. 2021;1–12. - Bald Eagle Management Goals and Objectives 2004 - 2019 (pdf file 2.1 MB)
Maine Department of Inland Fish and Wildlife
Adopted by MDIFW Commissioner and Advisory Council
September 23, 2004 - Bald Eagle Management Guidelines and Conservation Measures (pdf file 39 KB)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
November 24, 2009 - Behavioural and pathomorphological impacts of flash photography on benthic fishes (pdf file 1.7 MB)
Maarten De Brauwer, Luke M. Gordon, Tanika C. Shalders, Benjamin J. Saunders, Michael Archer, Euan S. Harvey, Shaun P . Collin, Julian C. Partridge & Jennifer L. McIlwain
Rature.com Scientific Reports
January 24, 2019 -
Biological and Ecotoxicological Characteristics of Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Residing in Estuaries (link to web site)
Rattner & Erwin
US Geological Survey -
Blackfly information (pdf: File size: 654 KB)
A collection of information on Black flies - Browntail Moth Research at The University of Maine (pdf: File size: 1.5 MB)
A Report of Activities and Findings 2016-2020
Dr. Eleanor Groden, et al -
Building Fishways to Restore Diadromous Fishes to Connecticut (web page)
Stephen Gephard
CTDEP/Inland Fisheries Division
Old Lyme, CT
2007 - Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission: Selected Gulf of Maine Reports: 1873-1898 (link to web site
Historical reports published by the U.S. Fish Commission relating to the fish and fisheries of New England, the Maritimes, and Atlantic Canada - The Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Selected reports 1881-1901 (link to web site
Historical reports published by the U.S. Fish Commission relating to the fish and fisheries of New England, the Maritimes, and Atlantic Canada -
Cating 1958 Damariscotta Alewife Fishery
(pdf: File size: 2 MB)
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Changes in plant communities of low-salinity tidal marshes in response to sea level rise
(pdf: File size: 1.9 MB)
Humphreys et al 2021 -
A Checklist of Maine Spiders (Arachnida Araneae) 2020
(pdf: File size: 1.3 MB)
Jennings, Daniel T.; Donahue, Charlene P.
Maine Forest Service
Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry
2020 - Ecology_of_Tidal_Freshwater_Marshes A Community Profile (pdf file 1.8 MB)
Odum 1984 - Cobbosseecontee Watershed, Maine (pdf file 1.8 MB)
Fish History, Water Quality, Hydrology and Aquatic Restoration Overview
Working Draft 2/1/2012 - Damming of Maine Watersheds and the Consequences for Coastal Ecosystems (pdf file 7.5 MB)
with a Focus on the Anadromous River Herring (Alosa pseudoharengus and Alosa aestivalis): A Four Century Analysis
A Thesis Presented by Carolyn Jean Hall to The Graduate School in
Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Marine and Atmospheric Science
Stony Brook University
December 2009 - Dams and Fish Migration (pdf file 137 KB)
Michel Larinier
Institut de Mecanique des Fluides, Toulouse, France - Dams, fish and fisheries (pdf file 1.25 MB)
Opportunities, challenges and conflict resolution
Gerd Marmulla
Fishery Resources Officer
Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service
Fishery Resources Division
FAO Fisheries Department - Dam Schematics for Androscoggin, Kennebec, Penobscot and St. Croix Rivers (jpg file 1.3 MB)
Courtesy: Colby College - The Decline and Impending Collapse of the Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Population in the North Atlantic Ocean_ A Review of Possible Causes (pdf file 1.5 MB)
Article in Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture
Dadswell et al
July 2021 - Determining puma habitat suitability in the Eastern USA (pdf file 2.3 KB)
- Diadromous Fish of the Kennebec River (web page)
- Diadromous Fish: Species Information and Profiles
Diadromous fish are those migratory species that require time in both salt and fresh water to complete their life cycle. There are two types:- 1. Anadromous fish live mostly in salt water and come into fresh water for spawning.
Young fish may stay some time in fresh water using it as nursery habitat.
Etymology: From the Greek anadromos, running upward.
Maine has 11 anadromous fish species - Alewife, American shad, Atlantic sturgeon, Atlantic Salmon (also see Legal Category above) Atlantic Tomcod, Blueback Herring, Rainbow Smelt, Sea-run Brook Trout, Sea Lamprey, Short-nose sturgeon, Striped Bass - 2. Catadromous fish live mostly in fresh water and run down to the ocean to spawn.
Etymology: From the Greek kata, down.
Maine has 1 catadromous fish species - American Eel (also see Legal Category above)
- 1. Anadromous fish live mostly in salt water and come into fresh water for spawning.
- Discover the Kennebec: The Fisheries Resources of the Kennebec River (web page)
Natural Resources and Educational Committees of the Kennebec River Council
Harry Vanderweide, Chairman of the Study
Ira L. Ellis, Cooperative Extension Service, Planning & Organizational Consultant
April 18, 1986 - Draft Fisheries Management Plan for the Lower Androscoggin River, Little Androscoggin River and Sabattus River (pdf file 402 KB)
Gail S. Wippelhauser, Maine Department of Marine Resources
September 2017 - Draft Fishery Management Plan
Cobbosseecontee Stream (pdf file 390 KB)
Gail S. Wippelhauser, Maine Department of Marine Resources
December 2002 -
Dunn 2019 Migratory Connectivity rspb.2019.1472
(pdf: File size: 673 KB)
- Ecology & Conservation of Maine's Freshwater Turtles (pdf file 4.4 MB)
Derek York, MDIF&W
Learn from this April 10, 2016 presentation to FOMB & the Merrymeeting Arts CenterPlease report your Maine reptile and amphibian sightings to MDIF&W by downloading and using this "Fill & Sign" Maine Amphibian & Reptile Atlas Project Reporting Form - Ecological and Organismic Effects of Light Pollution (pdf file 800 KB)
Longcore, Travis and Rich, Catherine (November 2016)
Ecological and Organismic Effects of Light Pollution. In: eLS.
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester.
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0026328 - Ecological and Organismic Effects of Light Pollution (pdf file 800 KB)
Longcore, Travis and Rich, Catherine
Frontiers Ecolological Environment 2004; 2(4): 191–198 - The Ecological Collapse and Partial Recovery of a
Freshwater Tidal Ecosystem (pdf file 586 KB)
John Lichter, Heather Caron, Timothy S. Pasakarnis, Sarah L. Rodgers, Thomas S. Squiers, Jr., and Charles S. Todd
2006 NORTHEASTERN NATURALIST 13(2):153–178 - Effects of Anthropogenic Light on Bird
Movement, Habitat Selection, and Distribution (pdf file (00 KB)
a systematic map protocol
Carrie Ann Adams, Arden Blumenthal, Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Erin Bayne and Colleen Cassady St. Clair
Biomedcentral.com Environmental Evidence
June 13, 2019 - Effects of Artificial Lighting at Night (ALAN) on Predator Density and Salmonid Predation (pdf file (10 MB)
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
T. Reid Nelson, Cyril J. Michel, Meagan P. Gary, Brendan M. Lehman, Nicholas J. Demetras, Jeremy J. Hammen, Michael J. Horn
November 29, 2020 - Effects of Light Characteristics on Avian Mortality at Lighthouses (pdf file (120 KB)
JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY 34: 328–333, 2003
Jason Jones and Charles M. Francis
November 26, 20030 -
Effects of Non-Ionizing ElectroMagnetic Fields on Flora & Fauna
- Levitt, Lai and Manville 2021 EMF Effects on Flora and Fauna Part 1.with supplementpdf ( PDF File 1.2 MB )
- Levitt, Lai and Manville 2021 EMF Effects on Flora and Fauna Part 2 ( PDF File 2.53 MB )
- Levitt, Lai and Manville 2021 EMF Effects on Flora and Fauna Part 3 ( PDF File 984 KB )
- Levitt, Lai and Manville 2022 Low-level EMF effects on wildlife and plants- What research tells us about an ecosystem approach ( PDF File 465 KB )
- Effects of urbanization of coastal watersheds on growth and condition of juvenile alewives in New England (pdf file 2.5 MB)
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
By Rita Monteiro Pierce, Karin E. Limburg, Daniella Hanacek, and Ivan Valiela
January 24, 2020 - A Field Guide to Common Aquatic and
Riparian Plants of New Hampshire (pdf file 4.2 MB)
New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
By Jen Drociak
Volunteer River Assessment Program Coordinator
March 2008 -
Fish Assemblages in the Penobscot River A Decade after Dam Removal (pdf file 309 KB)
Whittum
2023 - Fish Migration Categories (pdf file 69 KB)
Anadromous, Catadromous, Amphidromous, Oceanodromous, or Potamodromous
By Patrick Cooney
May 2013 - Fishes of the Gulf of Maine (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 -
Fish and Wildlife Resources in the Merrymeeting Bay and Lower Kennebec River Focus Area (web page)
Prepared by: The Gulf of Maine Coastal and Estuary Project
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Falmouth, Maine
March, 1994 - Fish Passage Reports
2009 Lower Kennebec River NextEra Energy (pdf file 11 MB)
2008 Lower Kennebec River NextEra Energy (pdf file 1 MB)
Kennebec River Anadromous Fish Restoration 2008 Progress Report Maine DMR (pdf file 1.7 MB)
Kennebec River Watershed Anadromous Fish Restoration Program Maine DMR (pdf; file size: 1.16 MB) - Fish Passage Technologies: Protection at Hydropower Facilities (pdf file 1.2 MB)
OTA-ENV-641 Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office
September 1995 - Fish Passage Workshop Presentation (pdf file 9.4 MB)
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
ASMFC Workshop on Fish Passage Issues Impacting Atlantic Coast States
April 3 & 4, 2008
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
A continuous summary of presentations [each starting with page 1]
1. State of the Art Fish Passage-Steve Gephart, CTDEP/IFD: 32 pages [slides]
2. Passage Concerns for Striped Bass-R.W. Laney et al.: 11 pages
3. Passage Technologies for River Herring, Shad, Sturgeon & Eel- Alex Haro, USGS: 24 pages
4. Hydro Licensing in the US: An Overview-Mark Pawlowsky, FERC: 27 pages
5. FERC Fish Passage Experiences from the Northeast-Melissa Grader, USFWS, Sean McDermott et al., NMFS: 10 pages
6. Fish Passage in the Southeast...Building on Success-Prescott Brownell, NMFS, Wilson Laney, USFWS: 11 pages
7. Comprehensive Fish Passage Mitigation in the Context of FERC Relicensing: The Southwest Region Perspective-NMFS: 13 pages
8. FERC Case Studies: Kennebec River-Gail Wippelhauser, MDMR: 3 pages
9. FERC Case Study: The Connecticut River-Melissa Grader, USFWS: 13 pages
10. Susquehanna Fish Passage Issues-Michael Hendricks, PF&BC: 11 pages
11. Fish Passage Restoration in the Santee Basin-Prescott Brownell, NMFS: 11 pages
12. NOAA's Fish Passage Activities in the Northeast-John Catena, NOAA: 10 pages
13. A State Perspective on Non-Hydropower Dams-Steve Gephart, CTDEP/IFD: 9 pages
14. Fish passage & Restoration at Non-Hydro Dams-Brian Graber, Am. Rivers: 14 pages
15. Projects on the Horizon-Alex Hoar, USFWS: 12 pages
16. Small Barriers, Large Impacts: Impacts on American Eel Distribution in NY State-Leonard Machut, Tunisan Lab: 25 pages
17. American Eel Passage Issues- Alex Haro, USGS: 12 pages
18. Case Study: Upper Potomac River - Alex Haro, USGS: 9 pagesFrom slide 11 in presentation 6:
Diadromous species represent a vital ecological link connecting inland river basins with coastal marine and estuarine ecosystems and valuable fisheries. Restoring productive marine fisheries for future generations of Americans may not be possible without also restoring diadromous fish populations. - Fish Passage Effectiveness Report (pdf file 900 KB)
Evaluation of Mitigation Effectiveness at Hydropower Projects
Division of Hydropower Administration and Compliance
Office of Energy Projects
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
October 18, 2004 - Forage Fish facebook page
Marine Fish Conservation Network - Freshwater Mussels
(See Chemical category above for more information on how freshwater mussels are used to monitor toxins and pollution) - The Freshwater Mussels of Maine
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife;
Nedeau, Ethan J.; McCollough, Mark A.; and Swartz, Beth I.
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Documents
https://digitalmaine.com/ifw_docs/76 - Gadids and Alewives: Structure within complexity in the Gulf of Maine (pdf file 2.6 MB)
Edward P. Ames & John Lichter
Fisheries Research 2013 - Genetic Population Structure and Accuracy of
Morphological Assessment in Alosa aestivalis (Blueback
Herring) and A. pseudoharengus (Alewife) (pdf file 626 KB)
Christopher Kan, John Lichter, and Vladimir Douh
2017 NORTHEASTERN NATURALIST 24(4):483–498 - Good-Bye Potholes (pdf: File size: 2 MB)
Clay Schoenfeld
Field and Stream
April 1949 -
Hall-et-al.-2010-The historic influence of dams on diadromous fish habitat with a focus on river herring and hydrologic longitudinal connectivity
(pdf: File size: 555 KB)
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Hall et al 2012 Centuries of Anadromous Forage Loss Consequences for Ecology
(pdf: File size: 2.7 MB)
- Hudson River (pdf: File size: 54 KB)
From a Mountain Top to 1000 Fathoms Deep
Boyle, Sports Illustrated, 1964 -
HISTORICAL EUTROPHICATION IN A RIVER–ESTUARY COMPLEX IN
MID-COAST MAINE
(pdf: File size: 334 KB)
DORTE KOSTER, JOHN LICHTER, PETER D. LEA, AND ANDREA NURSE
Ecological Applications, 17(3), 2007, pp. 765–778 -
Hammersley 2018 Dams-Social Resiliency
(pdf: File size: 1.1 MB)
- Intersecting Histories in the Kennebec River, Maine: Migratory Fish and Edwards Dam (pdf file 3.7 MB)
Simon Beirne
A Dissertation Presented For the Degree of Master of Science
University of Edinburgh, 2009 - Invasive Tree Pests (pdf file 10 MB)
Andy Valley IFP Presentation
Androscoggin Soil & Water Conservation District and Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry
July 2019
More on the complete range of invasive species in Maine (terrestrial plants, insects, animals, fish, aquatic plants, etc.) can be learned here: https://www.maine.gov/portal/about_me/invasives.html -
Jessop 1986 Alewives & Blueback Herring in the Gulf of Maine Area, DFO
(pdf: File size: 504 KB)
- Kennebec Estuary Focus Areas of Statewide Ecological Significance (pdf file 800 KB)
Beginning with Habitat
Maine Natural Areas Program, Department of Conservation - Limburg and Waldman 2019 Dramatic Declines in North Atlantic Diadromous Fishes (pdf file 421 KB)
- Living Planet Index Report on Migratory Fish 2020 (pdf file 5.8 MB)
- Lower Androscoggin Macroinvertebrate Sampling Study 2022 (pdf file 2,25 MB)
Paul C. Leeper
Moody Mountain Environmental - Maine’s 2018 Survey of Nesting Bald Eagles: (pdf file 2 MB)
Evaluating the Health and Conservation Needs of a Recovered Endangered Species
Charlie Todd, et al, 2019 - Maine’s Sebasticook River (pdf file 3.2 MB)
A Rare and Critical Resource for Bald Eagles in the Northeast
Biodiversity Research Institute
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife
supported in part by a grant from the American Eagle Foundation
2014 Brochure - Quantifying the Use of New England's Premier River Herring Run by Bald Eagles (pdf file 1.3 MB)
DeSorbo, C. R., D. Riordan E. Call and R. B. Gray. 2015.
Biodiversity Research Institute, Portland, ME.
Report #2015-09
submitted to the American Eagle Foundation, Pigeon Forge, TN and the Maine Dept of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Bangor, ME. -
Maine Forest Service Fact Sheets on Insects & Disease (web page)
Maine Forest Service - Maine Stream Habitat Viewer(website)
The Maine Stream Habitat Viewer is an interactive website maintained by the Maine Coastal Program as part of the Maine Stream Connectivity Work Group, which is a partnership of state, federal, industry and non-government organizations working cooperatively to improve Maine’s stream restoration efforts . Data obtained from the Maine Stream Habitat Viewer included stream barrier types, (crossings, waterfalls, dams, and natural barriers) stream reaches categorized by species (salmon and alewife) and function, watershed boundaries, and towns. - Managing Deer Wintering Areas in Northern, Western and Eastern Maine (pdf: File size: 1.2 MB)
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. - Managing New England Forests Threatened By Emerald Ash Borer (pdf: File size: 6.6 MB)
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Merrymeeting Bay Aquatic and Upland Habitat Assessments: 1956-2018
with Sewall Aerial Photograpy and GIS Studies - Merrymeeting Bay: Maine's Waterfowl Haven (pdf: File size: 550 KB)
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.
Game Division Leaflet Series Vol 1, No.1 June, 1957.
Howard Spencer Jr. - Merrymeeting Bay Survey (pdf: File size: 188 KB)
Maine Natural Areas Program
Date: 1998 - Movements of Atlantic Sturgeon of the Gulf of Maine (pdf: File size: 1.2 MB)
Inside and Outside of the Geographically Defined Distinct Population Segment.
Marine and Coastal Fisheries Journal Article
Gail S. Wippelhauser, James Sulikowski, Gayle B. Zydlewski, Megan A. Altenritter, Micah Kieffer & Michael T. Kinnison
Date: 10 March 2017 -
NOAA Coastal Resource Coordination Fact Sheet for Maine (pdf: File size: 495 KB)
(Notes NOAA Trust Species & Aeas of Special Concern {Merrymeeting Bay}) -
NOAA Habitat Restoration Center (Link to web site)
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NOAA Ocean Noise Strategy Roadmap Report (pdf: File size: 2.7 MB)
Particularly with increased offshore seismic exploration, shipping traffic and military exercises, ocean noise is becoming problematic for cetaceans (marine mammals) and other marine life including key organisms low on the food chain like plankton. Read more on this NOAA Fisheries web page https://cetsound.noaa.gov/ and in their Ocean Noise Strategy Roadmap Report.
Listen to a WBUR discussion with NOAA marine ecologist Dr. Leila Hatch of the Stellwagon Bank National Marine Sanctuary and watch the trailer for award winning film Sonic Sea (http://www.sonicsea.org/), here:https://www.wbur.org/events/447431/sonic-sea-screening-and-conversation -
Notices In Regard To The Abundance of Fish On The New England Coast In Former Times (pdf: File size: 3 MB)
- Overfishing Conservation Sustainability and Farmed Fish (pdf; file size: 3.7 MB)
Coty Perry
Aug 16, 2022 - Patterns, drivers, and a predictive
model of dam removal cost in
the United States (pdf; file size: 2.2 MB)
Duda et al. 2023 -
Penobscot Bay Watch: Fisheries News & Info (web page)
Website dedicated to protection & wise use of Penobscot Bay & the Gulf of Maine -
Penobscot Bay Watch: 19th & Early 20th Century Marine Ecology & Fisheries Research Reports (web page)
Digitized and uploaded to the internet by Ron Huber, Penobscot Baywatch, Rockland, Maine -
The Plight and Outlook for Migratory Fish
in the Gulf of Maine (pdf file 340 KB)
Andrew Goode
Universities Council on Water Resources
Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education
Issue 134, Pages 23-28, July 2006 -
Proceedings of a Workshop on American Eel Passage Technologies (pdf: File size: 2.3 MB)
Special Report No. 90 of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
Date: July 2013 - Rainbow Smelt 4th North American Workshop (pdf file 2.4 MB)
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Technical Report TR-51
2012 -
Reaching into the Past for Future Resilience: (pdf file 20 MB)
Recovery Efforts in Maine Rivers and Coastal Waters
John Lichter & Ted Ames
Maine Policy Review Vol 21 Issue 1 (2012) - Reconstructing the Gulf of Maine cod spawning grounds on the basis of local ecological knowledge (pdf file 256 KB)
Ted Ames
Vol 80, No 3675, pp. 1-9,
Journal of Marine Biological Assessment, UK - 20220209-Restoring the Lower Androscoggin (pdf file 1.4 MB)
Steve Heinz
FOMB Speaker Series
2/9/22 -
Revenge of the Nerds: The Story of Precocious Atlantic Salmon Parr (pdf file 418 KB)
Douglas Watts
Posted to Tispaquin's Revenge Blog
September 28, 2009 - Secchi and Sea-Run Alewives in Central Maine Lakes: (pdf file 210 KB)
Testing the 'Native-Invasive' Hypothesis
Douglas H. Watts
Augusta, Maine
August 2015 -
Shipp et al 1977 George Armytage Rounsefell 1905-1976
(pdf: File size: 571 KB)
- Social benefits of restoring historical ecosystems and fisheries: alewives in Maine. (pdf file 2.4 MB)
McClenachan, L., S. Lovell, and C. Keaveney
2015.
Ecology and Society 20(2): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-07585-200231 -
Smith 1897 The Salmon Fishery of Penobscot Bay and River 1895-1896 Bull of US Fish Commission (pdf file 364 KB)
Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 1897 -
Solan, M. et al. (pdf file 418 KB)
Anthropogenic sources of underwater sound can modify how sediment-dwelling invertebrates mediate ecosystem properties
Sci. Rep. 6, 20540; doi: 10.1038/srep20540 -
St Croix's Salmon Falls, Milltown Dam and Fishway (pdf file 2 MB)
Pleasant Pt. Passamaquoddy Tribe - Sturgeon Status in the Kennebec River (pdf file 1.8 MB)
FOMB Speaker Series Presentation 4/13/2016
Tom Squiers - The Forgotten Cousin in Freshwater Community
Ecology: Tidal Freshwater Wetlands (pdf file 2.8 MB)
Jack R. McLachlan UMaine, jack.mclachlan@maine.edu
Fall 12-16-2016 -
The River Fisheries of Maine (pdf file 20 MB)
By Charles G. Atkins, Maine's first Commissioner of Fisheries
excerpt from the 1887 U.S. Gov't publication "Fisheries and Fishery Industries of America" -
Salt Marshes in the Gulf of Maine (pdf file 2.98 MB)
Human Impacts, Habitat Restoration, and Long-term Change Analysis
Gulf of Maine
Council on the
Marine Environment
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The Spatial and Relative Abundance Characteristics of the Fish Assemblages in Three Maine Rivers.
2002 and 2003. (pdf; file size: 6.0 MB)
Kennebec River (Bingham to Merrymeeting Bay)
Androscoggin River (Errol, NH to Merrymeeting Bay)
Sebasticook River (Pittsfield, ME to Winslow, ME)
Chris O. Yoder (Ohio U. and Ctr. for Applied Bioassessment & Biocriteria)
and Brandon H. Kulik, John M. Audet, and Jeffrey D. Bagley (Kleinschmidt Associates)
Date: Sep. 1, 2006 - Strategic Plan for the Restoration of
Diadromous Fishes to the Penobscot River (pdf; file size: 2.7 MB)
- Tidewater Mucket Surveys in Cold Stream Pond, Cold Stream, Androscoggin River, Kennebec River, and Merrymeeting Bay (pdf; file size: 1.26 MB)
Nedeau 2023
- Torching Herring by the Dark of the Moon (pdf; file size: 1.3 MB)
DownEast
Oct. 1965 -
The Demography, Nesting Status and Movement Patterns of Snapping Turtles, Chelydra serpentina in Merrymeeting Bay
(about tracking turtles around Merrymeeting Bay - 93 MB Powerpoint file)
Lucy Van Hook
FOMB Presentation
Department of Biology, Bowdoin College
Date: April 12, 2006 - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries
Report of the Commissioner for 1872 and 1873
Washington, DC- 1. APPENDIX E: OBSTRUCTIONS TO THE UPWARD MOVEMENT OF FISHES IN STREAMS, AND THE REMEDY.
XXIII. ON FISH-WAYS. (pdf file 1.4 MB)
By Charles G. Atkins 591
Contents
A. Introductory remarks 591
B. Habits of migratory fishes 591
C. The construction and location of fish-ways. 594
1. Situation 594
2. Attractiveness 596
3. Ease of ascent 601
D Devices which are in use or have been proposed 603
1. Gap 604
2. Trench or Cape Cod fish-way 604
3. Oblique groove 605
4. Step-fish-ways 606
5. Smith's fish-way 607
6. Cail's fish-way 608
7. Pike's fish-way 609
S. Steck's fish-way 610
9. Inclined-plane fish-ways 610
10. The Pennsylvania fish-ways 610
11. The common rectangular fish-way 611
12. Brackett's fish-way 612
13. Fishways with oblique partitions 613
14. General arrangement 614 - 2. APPENDIX E: ON OBSTRUCTIONS TO THE ASCENT IN CERTAIN RIVERS
XXIV. ON OBSTRUCTIONS TO THE ASCENT OF FISH IN CERTAIN RIVERS (pdf file 800 KB)
Contents
A. Obstructions in the rivers of Maine. By E. M. Stilwell 617
Saint Croix River 617
Pemmaquan River 617
Dennys River 617
Orange River 618
East Machias River. 618
Machias River. 618
Wescongus or Pleasant River 618
Narrarguagus River. 618
Union River 618
Penobscot River and tributaries. 618
Saint George River 619
Medomac River 619
Damariscotta River 619
Sheepscot River 619
Kennebec and tributaries 619
Presumpscot River 621
Saco River and tributaries 621
Mousam River. 621
Salmon Falls River 621 - 3. THE COD-ALEWIFE CONNECTION (pdf file 460 KB)
This excerpt connects the health of Maine rivers to the health of the Gulf of Maine through access for migratory fish. It was cited incorrectly-wrong year, by Ted Ames in his 2004 paper on discrete cod populations which won him the prestigious McArthur "Genius" Award. It comes from the inroductory section of the Report of the Commisioner-Part A: Decrease in Food-Fishes.
[A biologically interesting conclusion was reached by Baird regarding the probable cause of the reduction of cod and river fishes, both of which have declined in equal ratio. He stated in his report for 1872-73 (Baird, 1874) that "the reduction in the cod and other fisheries, so as to become practically a failure, is due to the decrease off our coast in the quantity, primarily of alewives; and secondarily, of shad and salmon, more than to any other cause."].
From NOAA history: http://www.history.noaa.gov/stories_tales/wh_3.html
- 1. APPENDIX E: OBSTRUCTIONS TO THE UPWARD MOVEMENT OF FISHES IN STREAMS, AND THE REMEDY.
- USGS National Wetlands Research Center Science (link to web site)
Wetland and Aquatic Research Center - The Use of Aerial Photographs in the Study of Marsh Vegetation-Dave Olsen Thesis 1964 (pdf: File size: 1.75 MB)
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Vector_Borne_Diseases_2017_Tick_Talk (pdf file 3.7 MB)
Emer Smith, MPH
Field Epidemiologist
Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention - The Vegetation of the Estuaries of Northeastern North America (pdf file 7.2 MB)
Norman Fassett, 1928
Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History
Vol 39, No. 3
P. 73-100, pl. 6-15 -
Volunteers take on invasive plant in Bowdoinham WCSH Video link
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Waterfowl Habitat Change over Five Decades in a
Freshwater Tidal Ecosystem in Mid-Coast Maine (pdf file 1.2 MB)
John Lichter, Mark E.H. Burton, Sarah L. Close, Juliana M. Grinvalsky, and Jaret Reblin
2011 NORTHEASTERN NATURALIST 18(2):161–17 -
Waterway and Wildlife Crossing Policy and Design Guide (pdf file 3 MB)
For Aquatic Organism, Wildlife Habitat, and Hydrologic Connectivity
Maine DOT
3rd Edition, July 2008 - Where Predators and Prey Meet- Anthropogenic Contact Points Between Fishes in a Freshwater Estuary (pdf file 3.8 MB)
Lehman, Brendan M., Gary, Meagan P., Demetras, Nicholas and Cyril J. Michel
UC Davis - San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
December 2019 - 19th & Early 20th Century Marine Ecology & Fisheries Research Reports.
http://www.penbay.org/history.html (link to web pages)
