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COUNTRIES FAIL ATLANTIC SALMON
Overseas, the meetings of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation
Organization (NASCO) took place this month in Norway.
Sadly, NASCO would
not approve best practices in salmon fisheries management to
which countries could aspire. Bill
Taylor of ASF provides a commentary:
http://asf.ca/news.php?id=399
ALEWIVES - FOR HEALTHY SALMON RIVERS
Alewives, a native migratory species, have been blocked for more
than a decade from ascending the St. Croix River by order of
the Maine Legislature. The move was in support of bass outfitters
on the upper lakes, without consideration of the river's health,
or its international status. ASF and our conservation partners
are leading an effort to have the International Joint Commission
rule to restore
alewife passage. Alewives are an
important component in healthy Atlantic salmon rivers.
http://asf.ca/news.php?id=396
A guest editorial by Clinton B. Townsend
in the Bangor Daily News gives further insight into the
alewives, the situation in the St. Croix River, and background
to the current situation. There is also a link to the petition
presented to the International Joint Commission.
http://asf.ca/news.php?id=397
ENDANGERED SPECIES LISTING
Atlantic salmon in the Penobscot,
Kennebec and Androscoggin rivers
received Endangered
Species Listing last week by U.S.
Federal authorities. There are many important aspects of this
decision for readers - Check them out at www.asf.ca
- Among them:
NOAA's Press Release:
http://asf.ca/news.php?id=392
The Atlantic Salmon
Federation's reaction to the endangered
listing regrets the impact this will have on anglers:
http://asf.ca/news.php?id=393
In the Boston Globe:
http://asf.ca/news.php?id=395&type=news
An editorial on the
need for protection, in Maine's
Morning Sentinel:
http://asf.ca/news.php?id=401
To check out the FEDERAL REGISTER's
actual wording, go to the Endangered Issue page of ASF: http://asf.ca/issues.php?id=2
EDWARDS DAM BREACH - 10TH ANNIVERSARY
The endangered listing has come for the Kennebec salmon in
Maine - but the river
is already slowly coming back to
being a healthier river. July 1 will be the 10th anniversary
of the breaching of the Edwards Dam. Read a local perspective
on what good it has done:
http://asf.ca/news.php?id=398
FISH FRIENDS - BACK TO THE RIVERS
Hundreds of classrooms raising Atlantic salmon from New England
to Labrador released their salmon fry into designated streams
over the past few weeks. Last week it was the turn of Newfoundland
schools. Check out
one release into the Exploits River:
http://asf.ca/news.php?id=400
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