A carefully controlled catch-and-release season for Atlantic salmon on the Penobscot River would offer far greater scientific benefit than risk—especially when contrasted with the persistent, under-acknowledged and allowable salmon mortality rates happening at every dam with inadequate fish passage. Each year, significant numbers of migrating Atlantic salmon are delayed, injured, or killed as they encounter […]
Why Not a Conservation-Based Catch & Release Atlantic Salmon Season?
May 19, 2025
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