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woodchip:
PH  killing  White fish, over fishing of one of our base fish in the system will eliminate them.

Moosekill:
Smelts actually kill the whitefish.  They eat the eggs when the whitefish spawn.  Whitefish are long lived and don't produce many young. 

Steve H.:

--- Quote from: Moosekill on Mar 22, 2022, 02:09 PM ---Smelts actually kill the whitefish.  They eat the eggs when the whitefish spawn.  Whitefish are long lived and don't produce many young.

--- End quote ---

Can someone clarify if smelt are an introduced species throughout Maine?  I know they were introduced to the Rangeley lakes (to the demise of blueback trout and, subsequently, giant brook trout) but were they originally limited to only sea-accessible lakes and rivers like landlocked salmon were?  Or did smelt always exist in fresh water far from the ocean?

woodchip:
I believe our smelts like our landlock salmon, Burbot  and some other fish were originally from the ocean  and migrated and when dams were built  got blocked from returning to the ocean.if one looks at fossils many miles away from the sea  most of our state was under water  at one time.

Fisherman 1:
Eels are native to the watersheds, it's man that made all the dams to screw thing up. Normally they would migrate to the Sargasso sea to spawn and then over a long journey, return to fresh water.   Nothing better than smoked eel.

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