Learn more. PHILLIPS — Despite dams blocking their path up the Kennebec River, a growing number of endangered Atlantic salmon have made their way to the cold-water habitat of the Sandy River to ...

Let's dive into the wonderful world of salmon! If you've ever stood in front of the seafood section at your local grocery ...

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Deep within Maine’s 100-Mile Wilderness, Atlantic salmon and native brook trout are making a slow but steady comeback.

This proposal was made final in 2009, when the agencies also granted the fish additional critical habitat protections in about 12,000 miles of rivers and estuaries and 300 square miles of lakes. We've ...

For decades, scientists have researched the migratory patterns of Atlantic salmon, a species already under threat from habitat loss, overfishing, and environmental fragmentation. These sleek fish ...

But, there’s little evidence that lack of such suitable habitat currently limit ... impacts probably occur in the Atlantic feeding grounds where juvenile salmon migrate to grow into mature ...

While recent declines in Atlantic salmon numbers are primarily attributed to overfishing, habitat loss, and fragmentation — leading to their “endangered” status — the research team said ...

For five years the DEC has been stocking Lake Champlin with pen-reared Atlantic Salmon ... and dams and stuff and the salmon couldn’t get upriver to their habitat. They’re kind of in trouble ...

In the largest study of its kind to date, a team of international researchers has investigated how pharmaceutical pollution affects the behavior and migration of Atlantic salmon. The study ...

Study reveals commonly detected environmental levels of clobazam -- a medication often prescribed for sleep disorders -- increased the river-to-sea migration success of juvenile salmon in the wild.