By Fisheries Biologist Kevin Gallant

Having the ability to age a fish is a valuable tool for fishery managers.  Stocked fish often have clipped fins that tell us what age they are (by knowing the year the certain fin was clipped).  With wild fish (and unmarked hatchery fish), we have a few other options to give us the age of a given fish. 

By Regional Wildlife Biologist Chuck Hulsey

By Fisheries Biologist Tim Obrey The Moosehead Lake Region, as designated by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, is big…some might say wicked big.  It stretches from Dover-Foxcroft in the south to Allagash Lake in the north, Rainbow Lake to the east and the thriving metropolis of Skinner to the west. The land area covers 4,391 square miles with 4,125 miles of flowing water and over a quarter million acres of Great Ponds (there’s also another 2,160 acres of not so Great Ponds. i.e.