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Teaching 4-H’s fly tying
Read more: Teaching 4-H’s fly tyingToday, a group of students who are 4H members gathered in Skowhegan. They came from Solon, Jackman, Newport, Norrighwock and Skowhegan and Jim Thibodeau, David Nevedomsky and Willie Grenier taught them to tie flies. After a PowerPoint presentation of the Clean Water Act, the students had a chance to ask questions. Not just a chance to ask questions of someone who read about or studied the Clean Water Act. They got to ask questions of people who lived through the days BEFORE the Clean Water Act. There was a lot of fly tying and back and forth discussion which made…
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The Night of the Shad
Read more: The Night of the ShadStop on by and hear it straight from: The Shad Guys [pdf-embedder url=”https://kennebecvalleytu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/shad1.pdf”]
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Pocomoonshine and Crawford Lakes Fish Passage Project
Read more: Pocomoonshine and Crawford Lakes Fish Passage ProjectText below taken from: EMBRACE-A-STREAM 2013 GRANT APPLICATION FORM Applicant: Kennebec Valley Chapter and Greater Boston Chapter of Trout Unlimited Project Title: Pocomoonshine and Crawford Lakes Fish Passage Project, Pokey Dam, East Machias River, ME Project Location: Pokey Dam, East Machias River, Crawford, ME Salmonid Species and Threatened/Endangered Status: Atlantic salmon (Endangered), sea run and freshwater (native) Eastern Brook Trout “The goal of this project is to construct a new concrete Denil fishway at Pokey Dam on the East Machias River in Downeast Maine. The existing wooden fishway has partially failed and no longer functions as needed. The new fishway will help restore and…
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IF&W Study Results on the Use of Rubber lures and Nondegradable Fishing hooks and Lures
Read more: IF&W Study Results on the Use of Rubber lures and Nondegradable Fishing hooks and LuresReport back to Legislature On Resolve: Chapter 18 Resolve, To Require the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife To Conduct a Study on the Use of Rubber lures and Nondegradable Fishing hooks and Lures Presented By: Dana DeGraaf – Fisheries Biologist, IFW Date: January 28, 2014 126th Legislature – Second Session Click here to open FINAL REPORT: To the Joint Standing Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
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State response to LD1671 Gold Dredging
Read more: State response to LD1671 Gold DredgingInland Fisheries and Wildlife, Commissioner Woodcock’s response to LD1671 proposed closures for gold dredging in certain streams. Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife – LD1671 Department of Marine Resources, Commissioner Keliher’s response to LD1671 proposed closures for gold dredging in certain streams. Department of Marine Resources – LD 1671
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Proposed Plan for Managing State Heritage Fish Waters
Read more: Proposed Plan for Managing State Heritage Fish WatersThis report is IF&W’s report back to the Legislature on Public Law 2013. Chapter 358, Section 8 – Proposed Plan for Managing State Heritage Fish Waters. Presented by Dana DeGraaf, Fisheries Biologist to the 126th Legislature – Second Session. Click the link below to open. Unfortunately the last page was left out of the original scan so please click the next link down to open the last page. Proposed Plan for Managing State Heritage Fish Waters (all but the last page) Final Page (sorry for the mixup – but this is the last page of the above report) And here’s…
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State of Maine, Regulations Relating to Temperature Summary:
Read more: State of Maine, Regulations Relating to Temperature Summary:These rules provide safeguards for fresh and salt water fauna in lakes and rivers of the state, by establishing instream limits on temperature resulting from thermal discharges. Click the link below to see the summary. State of Maine, REGULATIONS RELATING TO TEMPERATURE SUMMARY:
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Lee Wulff Atlantic Salmon Conservation Award
Read more: Lee Wulff Atlantic Salmon Conservation AwardAwarded to Laura Rose Day. Congratulations Laura To see the whole article click below.
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USGS – Historical Flood Event Data
Read more: USGS – Historical Flood Event DataHere’s a look at past flows. Click the link to open the PDF usgs-flood-event-data