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Maine Fisheries Program Complex Outreach Staff Provides Stewardship Training
Northeast Region, May 22, 2005
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During May, two-year-old Atlantic salmon smolts head downstream from their fresh-water nursury habitats toward the sea, bound for the food-rich waters off Greenland in the North Atlantic. At the same time, the alewives are migrating in from the sea, bound for the inland lakes to spawn-- a cross-traffic pattern that's been going on for millennia. Also annually every May, two Maine Stewardship Training groups convene at Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery and the Damariscotta River Association headquarters for training. The new classes of the Mid Coast Stewards and the Penobscot Bay Stewards receive training at Craig Brook NFH regarding the migration of Atlantic salmon and alewives, as well as in watershed ecosystem dynamics-- their habitats, their resources, their economic value, the wildlife they harbor and the historic and present human impacts which affect their quality. The trainees are volunteers who, along with their training, possess a variety of professional and life skills which they collectively put to work with others on a selected project in their home regions to improve the quality of their watersheds-- a most valuable partnership which benefits the quality of the rivers, the wildlife (including Atlantic salmon and alewives) and the quality of human life.

Contact Info: Jennifer Lapis, (413) 253-8303, jennifer_lapis@fws.gov



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