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A $35M
Fund will be giving a major boost
to Atlantic salmon
tracking at sea. Acoustic transmitters
in salmon from rivers in every eastern Canadian Province are
now being used to track fish using this amazing technology. This
funding will take it to the next stage of unravelling the mystery
of salmon migration and at-sea mortality. For an overview of ASF's Field Research programs,
go to the Research home page. There is also a downloadable two-page
summary available there: ASF's RIVER REPORTS have just been updated. Check the latest water
levels and fish returns for many rivers: Freshwater hatcheries run by salmon farm
companies are an ongoing nightmare for maintaining the integrity
of wild salmon runs in those rivers. Released farmed fish can
compete, interbreed or give diseases to wild populations. In Scotland, for the first time
a salmon farm has been forced to pay out for hatchery escapees. Alewives are considered an important component of healthy
rivers within their natural range. But in the St. Croix River that forms the border
between Maine and New Brunswick,
this native species had its migration blocked by unilateral action
of the State of Maine. Now the International Joint Commission
has waded in with a letter to Maine's Governor on the need to
reopen fish ladders to the alewives.
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