Project SHARE hosting Stream Restoration Workshop
Join Project SHARE on March 11, 2015 for an all day Stream Restoration Techniques Workshop. The workshop will be taking place at the Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, located at 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth, ME 04105 The workshop will have special speakers from around...
Update on the Union River Dam
On January 27, 2015, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), issued a letter to Black Bear Hydro, LLC, the owner of the Ellsworth Dam Project on the Union River documenting the fish kill as a violation of its license. This license expires in 2017 and is...
Alewife Workshop a SUCCESS!!!!!!
On January 21st, over 50 people, from over 16 organizations, participated in a day long workshop focused on the restoration of river herring - alewives, shad, blue-backs, and sardines - in eastern Maine. Held at the Maine Sea Coast Missions facility in Cherryfield,...
Beautiful Images from DSF Salmon Release Effort
Photos courtesy of Kyle Winslow, Hatchery Manager at DSF's East Machias Aquatic Resource Center
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 in...
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207-255-0983