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World Fish Migration Day Pictures 2014

Use this interactive map to see where our Flat Fish have migrated! Click on a point to reveal photos. Use the + and - buttons on the left to zoom in and out of the map. Use the + button on the right to change the map settings.
Flat Fish artist Laury Zicari asked her deputy first assistant and best friend, Bailey, to help our flat alewife migrate! Flat Fish artist Laury Zicari asked her deputy first assistant and best friend, Bailey, to help our flat Atlantic salmon migrate! This is the Bangor Waterfront, at the mainstem of the Penobscot River, where we picked up the fish! This is the Bangor Waterfront, at the mainstem of the Penobscot River, where we picked up the fish! Bailey's Alewife has migrated upstream along the Mainstem of the Penobscot River, to the Eddington Salmon Club, just below the former site of Veazie Dam. The Veazie Dam was removed in 2013. Bailey's Salmon has migrated upstream along the Mainstem of the Penobscot River, to the Eddington Salmon Club, just below the former site of Veazie Dam. The Veazie Dam was removed in 2013. In this view, Bailey and his salmon are on the club's porch. You can see Veazie powerhouse in the background. The fish navigated past the former Veazie Dam site and made their way up to Bradley, across the river from Old Town Fuel and Fiber. This is the former site of Great Works Dam, which was removed in 2012. The fish navigated past the former Veazie Dam site and made their way up to Bradley, across the river from Old Town Fuel and Fiber. This is the former site of Great Works Dam, which was removed in 2012. Bailey's Alewife made it to Old Town! Across the river you can see the Milford Dam powerhouse. Milford Dam is the first dam on the Penobscot River. People will be building a new fish lift here in the future to help fish. Bailey's Alewife has made it to Pushaw Lake. A new fishway here will allow fish to swim to 8,000 acres of premium spawning habitat. In this picture, Bailey is out on the lake! Bailey's Alewife has made it to Pushaw Lake. A new fishway here will allow fish to swim to 8,000 acres of premium spawning habitat. In this picture, Bailey is at the town landing. Here is Bailey with his salmon at West Pond, Schoodic Peninsula, Acadia National Park! You can see Mount Desert Island on the Horizon. Bailey and his salmon at the tip of Schoodic Point with the deep blue sea beyond. All the salmon swimming back to the Penobscot watershed pass by this point! The staff at The Nature Conservancy in Maine proudly display their flat fish alongside the Androscoggin River! U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Mark McCollough with the flat salmon on Moosehead Lake. Mark is standing next to steamship Katahadin with the lake in the background. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Mark McCollough with the flat salmon on Moosehead Lake. Mark is standing next to steamship Katahadin with the lake in the background. Thomas Davidowicz, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist, at the historic Low's Bridge on the Piscataquis River in Guilford with our flat salmon! USFWS Maine Field Office staff show their flat fish on the Stillwater Branch! Bailey and alewife at Sears Island causeway Bailey and his fish are on the Eastern side of Sears island at low tide low tide, eastern shore Sears Isle Bailey with salmon, eastern shore Sears Island USFWS biologist at Bangor Waterworks with an Atlantic sturgeon right next to where they hang out in a pool in the Penobscot River! Atlantic sturgeon has swum as far upstream as Bangor Waterworks, near Hogan Road! Alewife has now swum upstream in Sedgeunkedunk Stream to the rock ramp fishway built at the site of the Orrington Dam in 2008! Fish can swim all the way from the ocean to this spot! Bailey and flat salmon at Kenduskeag Race at Six Mile Falls USFWS Staff (Maine Field Office, Maine Coastal Islands NWR) at Petit Manan Point, cleaning up marine debris. USFWS staff holding an Atlantic Salmon in front of the Capitol building. Brooklyn, the East River and migratory fish! Love that East River, said the fish! Local Food Movement Advocate John Carter meets Atlantic sturgeon Alewife and Patuxent River near Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Lake trout restoration moves forward with Lake trout at Rock Hall Lotsa Lakes there. Cleveland Cliffs produces iron ore pellets from the midwest iron mines; the laker is berthed in Cleveland harbor. all our flat fish species together American eel makes a stop in Atlantic city to try the slots. These two alewives have traveled a long way, beating the DC traffic and the spring tourists, to see the famous Washington Monument. It's difficult to write to your congressperson when you're a fish, so this Eel and Atlantic Sturgeon went to DC in order to talk to their legislators, directly. MEFO staff, Wende Mahaney and Fred Seavey, show pride in Maine's anadromous fish while cleaning up Petit Manan Point. Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge biologist, Linda Welch, proudly displays an Atlantic Salmon at Petit Manan Point. lots of migration going on!!!! The sturgeon has migrated up the Connecticut River to Sunderland! Big Atlantic salmon has leaped over Holyoke Dam and arrived in Hadley! An American eel has slithered its way up to Hadley MA and was captured on fishing day by a cub scout! Mrs. Harrison's class checks out migratory fish on the Kennebec River, in Bath, Maine. Bath is just downstream of the amazing Merrymeeting Bay where the Kennebec and Androscoggin Rivers join. Atlantic sturgeon has finagled its way up the Connecticut River, down Route 9 to the USFWS Northeast Regional Office!!! Lake trout is quite a catch for a visiting tourist to the Rock Hall! Atlantic sturgeon wanders the ocean with Josh Striped bass are another sea run fish which migrates in the big rivers of Maine This sturgeon must have had quite a time finding Belgrade. Kennebec River through Merrymeeting Bay, up the main stem Kennebec to Messalonskee Stream, through Messalonskee Lake to Great Pond...and Belgrade! Sturgeon nosed its way up to Fredericton, NB Bailey and the salmon are checking out an arch culvert with a natural bottom, set at the right elevation to be more or less "invisible" to aquatic organizisms moving through it! This is Henk Wilmink, Friesland, the Netherlands and a migratory fish Ryan manages to keep this sturgeon from wiggling while his teacher took their picture! Near the Kennebec, Maine. Fish are right at home in this part of Europe, some of which is below sea level! Biologists Antonio and Jay investigate a potentially impassible falls on a Rolling Dam Brook, a tributary to the Kennebec River. The Cortland, NY office is just about at the very top of the Chesapeake Bay Drainage...a few miles north is a continental divide where a fish would swim out to the Gulf of St. Lawrence if it could migrate all the way to the Finger Lakes. AND two lively alewives swimming upstream towards the new fishway at Pushaw Stream! Graham Goulette (NOAA Fisheries) visiting the Sheepscot River while Maine Department of Marine Resources staff tend the Rotary Screw Trap to monitor salmon out migration. Graham Goulette (NOAA fisheries) deploys acoustic telemetry receiver in the Damariscott Estuary with a fish friend. Jim and fish friend are migrating out of Medomak Estuary and deploying another acoustic telemetry receiver. Flat Fish and Jim and Graham deploying another acoustic telemetry receiver in St. Georges Estuary Jim working with a flat alewife and NOAA to deploy acoustic telemetry receivers in Merrymeeting Bay Jason and Flat Alewife deploying an acoustic telemetry receiver in the Kennebec River Estuary The Third Grade at Eastern Point Day School are "Students Collaborating to Undertake Tracking Efforts for Sturgeon" or SCUTES (which are also those bony plates on the ancient fish, the sturgeon).
 

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