MaineRivers joined dozens of groups in filing an amicus brief with the court, supporting our colleagues at Friends of the Presumpscot River and American Rivers in their fight to keep alive a state’s ability to regulate the operation of hydropower dams on its waters.
As is the history of most industrial rivers in the northeast, these runs were extirpated by uncontrolled pollution and the building of dams that lacked fish passage.
Dams alter the chemical, physical and biological integrity of rivers by changing the flow, increasing water temperature, changing the distribution of sediment, reducing oxygenation and blocking the migration of fish and other aquatic species to their spawning or feeding habitat.
Maine'srivers once teemed with the leaping silvery sport fish that became so popular one was ceremoniously delivered to the US president each year.
He wants to place Penobscot River salmon, which are not endangered, into the Dennys River, one of the rivers where salmon are endangered, to better understand why Penobscot salmon return from the ocean in greater numbers.
Maine officials argued against the endangered listing, saying the salmon in the eight rivers had undergone so much stocking they were no more Maine's own than any other exotic fish raised in a tank.
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