Pokey Dam Fishway Complete!

  A new fishway was recently completed at Pokey Dam on the East Machias River at the outlet of Crawford Lake.  In the works for sometime, the state-of the-art fishway will allow over a million alewives to reach 4,500 acres of spawning habitat – and as many as one...

Watch Robin Alden’s TEDxDirigo Talk

“Living with fish: Doing it right In eastern Maine” Robin Alden is Executive Director of Penobscot East Resource Center, a non-profit organization she co-founded in 2003, located on the waterfront in Stonington, Maine.  In May, 2012, Robin gave a TEDx talk...

Sentinel Survey Complete!

Penobscot East Resource Center in partnership with the University of Maine has brought a close to the fifth season of the Eastern Gulf of Maine Sentinel Survey Fishery. The project is designed to monitor groundfish recovery in the area from Penobscot Bay to the...

DSF Releases Atlantic Salmon Parr

                The Downeast Salmon Federation’s Atlantic Salmon initiative receives attention from The Boston Globe! With help from hundreds of volunteers, 140,000 juvenile endangered Atlantic Salmon were able to be...