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Proceedings of the first virtual CMS Public Meeting

The proceedings, slides, minutes, and Q&A session from the 5/28/2020 meeting are now available for public viewing and comment

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Atlantic Salmon 5-Year Review

PROTECTED RESOURCES REGULATIONS AND ACTIONS

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Maine Audubon: Stream Smart Workshop

Training opportunity Restoration

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NOAA Fisheries designate critical habitat for Atlantic sturgeon

NOAA Fisheries designate critical habitat for Atlantic sturgeon

The critical habitat designation will require federal agencies to consult NOAA Fisheries if they operate or fund activities that may affect designated critical habitat in more than 3,968 miles of important coastal river habitat from Maine to Florida. Atlantic sturgeon was listed under the Endangered Species Act in 2012 and is comprised of the threatened Gulf of Maine distinct population segment and the endangered New York Bight, Chesapeake Bay, Carolina, and South Atlantic distinct population segments.

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NOAA Fisheries announces "Species in the Spotlight" campaign for Atlantic Salmon.

NOAA Fisheries announced a new Species in the Spotlight campaign to focus recovery and public education efforts on nine marine species that are at risk of extinction.

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NOAA and USFWS Release Atlantic Salmon Recovery Plan

Final Atlantic Salmon Recovery Plan 2019

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Maine Audubon: Stream Smart Phase II workshops

stream survey techniques and concepts associated with ecologically sound road/stream crossings

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International Atlantic Salmon Assessment Report Available

The annual report of the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) Working Group on North Atlantic Salmon [WGNAS] is available for download online.

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Acoustic Telemetry Assessment of Hatchery-Reared Smolts in the Narraguagus River

Acoustic Telemetry Assessment of Hatchery-Reared Smolts in the Narraguagus River

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NOAA Announces Initiation of Atlantic Salmon Five-Year Status Review

NOAA Announces Initiation of Atlantic Salmon Five-Year Status Review

Endangered and Threatened Species; Initiation of 5-Year Review for the Endangered Gulf of Maine Distinct Population Segment of Atlantic Salmon

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Down East salmon restoration efforts celebrated

Down East salmon restoration efforts celebrated

The building that houses the Downeast Salmon Federation is wearing a disguise, Dwayne Shaw says with a grin, gesturing around the sparkling building that contains the Peter Gray Hatchery, a museum, a laboratory and office space.

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Endangered and Threatened Marine Species Recovery Grant Awarded to Penobscot Indian Nation

Endangered and Threatened Marine Species Recovery Grant Awarded to Penobscot Indian Nation

NOAA has awarded the Penobscot Indian Nation with continued funding for their Atlantic salmon management and outreach projects.

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2017 U.S. Atlantic Salmon Assessment Committee Annual Report

2017 U.S. Atlantic Salmon Assessment Committee Annual Report

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NOAA Fisheries announces 2018 Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant competition is underway

NOAA Fisheries is pleased to announce that the 2018 Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant competition is currently open. This year's solicitation consists of two separate submission processes. All interested applicants must submit a 2 page Pre-Proposal to the Federal Funding Opportunity posted at www.Grants.gov under FFO# NOAA-NMFS-FHQ-2018-2005332. Applicants must submit a complete and timely pre-proposal and meet all requirements to submit a full proposal. Applicants interested in submitting a full application after the pre-proposal review process must submit the full application also through www.grants.gov under the same FFO # listed above.

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USFWS Programmatic Stream Crossing Consultation

USFWS, FEMA, and USACE in Maine have collaborated on a programmatic Endangered Species Act section 7 consultation that will facilitate recovery of the endangered Atlantic salmon and promote healthy stream ecosystems. Poorly designed stream crossings have long been recognized as a problem for Atlantic salmon and other native aquatic organisms in Maine. While progress has certainly been made to address this issue on a variety of fronts, including outreach and education, more work remains to be done.

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Milford Fish Lift Weekly Updates

Fish Passage Data. Previous updates are available in the Database folder under the Resources tab.

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Fish & Chips: TNC's fish habitat restoration on a local potato farm

The Nature Conservancy helps fish, people, and potato chips

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NEFSC: Field Fresh Blog Posts

The Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) has conducted resource cruises out of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, since 1885. Our scientists research marine mammals, groundfishes of the Atlantic, and their habitats. Standard bottom trawl surveys were initiated in the fall of 1963, and since 1968 have been completed each spring and fall. Cruises to monitor shellfish resources have been conducted since the late 1970s, primarily for sea scallops, surf clams and ocean quahogs. On all cruises, oceanographic, as well as meteorological data are collected. The data obtained from the standard trawl surveys are universally recognized as the most scientifically valuable time series of fisheries related data in the world.

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First genetically engineered salmon sold in Canada

US firm AquaBounty Technologies says that its farmed, transgenic salmon has hit the market after a 25-year wait.

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A Vulnerability Assessment of Fish and Invertebrates to Climate Change on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf

A Vulnerability Assessment of Fish and Invertebrates to Climate Change on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf

Atlantic salmon tops the list of species most vulnerable to climate change in Northeast

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$900,000 in Funding Allocated for Atlantic Salmon Habitat Restoration

Funding for four partnerships will help restore habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon in Maine.

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News

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Media Coverage

Includes televised news reports, newspaper articles and editorials that appear in the media that are relevant to Atlantic Salmon and sea-run fish restoration in Maine.

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ME DMR smolt trapping is underway!

smolt trapping rotary screw traps

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Magic on the River

dam removal habitat accessibility restoration

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Megunticook Watershed Restoration, Camden ME

Watershed and connectivity restoration

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Species in the Spotlight: 5-year Action Plan for Atlantic Salmon

Species in the Spotlight. Restoration and Recovery.

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Announcements

Includes funding or job announcements.

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Introducing Audubon's "Salmon Shorts" Videos

Just a few hundred years ago, Atlantic Salmon were abundant up and down the northeast coast. Now, Maine is home to the last remaining wild populations of Atlantic Salmon in the United States and they are a federally recognized endangered species. This decline has had huge impacts on everything connected to salmon–traditional ways of living, wildlife up and down the food chain, and the health of our watersheds. Beginning in 2018, Maine Audubon has participated annually in the Atlantic Salmon Federation’s educational Fish Friends program to highlight the significance of wild Atlantic Salmon. Raising salmon provides a concrete and accessible entry point into many topics that are important to our work: habitat needs and interdependence, stream connectivity and river restoration, and the power of bringing Traditional Ecological Knowledge together with western science. Through Fish Friends, participating classrooms and organizations like Maine Audubon receive eggs from local hatcheries and raise them through the beginning of their life cycle. Then, with expert guidance, the young salmon are released in local waterways.

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ICES Publishes NOAA Model to Predict Fish Population Response to Dams

ICES Publishes NOAA Model to Predict Fish Population Response to Dams

NOAA Fisheries Scientists publish paper modeling the response of Atlantic salmon to dam removals on the Penobscot River, Maine, USA.

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Atlantic Salmon Returns to the Narraguagus

Weekly updates. Previous reports are accessible via the Database Section under the Resources tab

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News Releases

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Northern Maine Hatchery Receives 42,000 Eggs

For eventual introduction to an Aroostook River tributary.

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Final Atlantic Salmon Recovery Plan is now available 2019

The Atlantic Salmon Recovery Plan is now available!

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Final Atlantic Salmon Recovery Plan 2019

The final Atlantic Salmon Recovery Plan has been finalized and is now available.

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CMS Reports for 2020

Annual Report on the DPS, Annual SHRU Reports, Annual Standing Committee Reports, Ad Hoc Committee Reports

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