The ice fishing ME board is sponsored by:
Visit Dags visit derby website

Author Topic: DMR Asks DMR To Approve Aquaculture Lease  (Read 1396 times)

Offline Anomaly

  • Team IceShantyholic
  • ***
  • Posts: 5,156
  • Formerly clamfarmer
DMR Asks DMR To Approve Aquaculture Lease
« on: Mar 18, 2020, 08:02 AM »
https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/maine-news/waterfront/dmr-asks-dmr-to-approve-aquaculture-lease/

"The application requests a lease on four acres on the south side of the harbor, east of Western Head and west of Little River Island. The proposal calls for DMR to install up to four 70-meter (about 230 feet) diameter circular net pens to be stocked with Atlantic salmon smolt (juvenile fish) either grown at the federal Green Lake National Fish Hatchery in Ellsworth or harvested in the wild from Downeast rivers. After the fish reach adult size, they would be reduced into the wild. According to the application, the purpose of the project is to study whether raising salmon from smolt to adult in marine net pens and releasing the fish as adults into high-quality habitats — smolt to adult supplementation (SAS) — can increase production and fitness of endangered populations of Atlantic salmon in the Gulf of Maine.”
"You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy fishing gear and that’s kind of the same thing.” 

Offline joefishmore

  • Team IceShanty Maniac
  • **
  • Posts: 1,155
Re: DMR Asks DMR To Approve Aquaculture Lease
« Reply #1 on: Mar 18, 2020, 05:48 PM »
Thought they went to Greenland to feed and grow ?
I think most are eaten by cormorants  and the survivors netted by Greenlanders

 



Iceshanty | MyFishFinder | MyHuntingForum
Contact | Disclaimer | Privacypolicy | Sponsor
© 1996- Iceshanty.com
All Rights Reserved.