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Summer Pond Surveys Add Insight Into Fisheries And Stocking Programs
[caption id="attachment_2442" align="alignright" width="317"] IFW Fisheries Assistant Tom Barrows shows some campers a rainbow trout and how to indentify them.[/caption] By IFW Fisheries Biologist Jason Seiders IFW biologists in central and midcoast Maine depend on stocking programs to create trout fishing opportunities for our anglers.
SPIN Gives Biologists Clearer Picture Of Sebago's Lake Trout Population
[caption id="attachment_2432" align="alignright" width="579"] A 12-pound Sebago Lake Trout.[/caption] By IFW Fisheries Biologist Jim Pellerin Fisheries Biologists in the Sebago Region have been spending the bulk of our 2016 and 2017 summer field seasons working on Sebago Lake to assess the lake trout (aka “togue”) population. Learning even more about this important fishery in the State’s deepest and se
Fisheries Biologists Wrap Up Project On Allagash Wilderness Waterway
[caption id="attachment_2419" align="alignright" width="344"] The Allagash Wilderness Waterway Ranger staff helped throughout the project.[/caption] By IFW Fisheries Biologist Frank Frost Fisheries Division biologists from the Ashland Region recently ended a one year project on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway where we evaluated the brook trout population. We focused work on Big Eagle and Chur
How To Live (And Win) With Beavers in Western Maine
By Regional Wildlife Biologist Chuck Hulsey and Assistant Regional Wildlife Biologist Bob Cordes, Region D For the past 28 years the Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) Region 3 in Dixfield has been supplying our regional wildlife program in western Maine with salvage channel posts. These are the heavy duty metal posts to which DOT affixes stop signs. Instead of going to scrap metal, we give old rusted posts a new life as part of a simple fence and water leveling structure to keep beavers from plugging road culverts. After a plugged culvert is cleared of mud and stic
IFW Successfully Saves And Restores Arctic Charr Population In Northern Maine Pond
[caption id="attachment_2399" align="alignright" width="448"] IFW Fisheries Biologist Frank Frost holds a Big Reed Arctic charr.
Spring-time Thunder-Pumpers
By Tom Schaeffer, Regional Wildlife Biologist Ever heard of a “Thunder-Pumper?” How about “water-belcher?” I hadn’t either until I did some online searching. These colloquialisms for a Maine marsh bird come pretty close to describing the spring courting call of the male American Bittern. I was treated about a week ago to a rare opportunity to view both a male and female bittern in a relatively open set
Budding Fisheries Biologists Right Here in Central Maine
By IFW Fisheries Biologist Wes Ashe [caption id="attachment_2391" align="alignright" width="496"]Here are a handful of quotes from the awesome pack of thank you letters I recently received in the mail.[/caption] Working as a fisheries biologist for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, I often get the opportunity to present in front of various lake associations,
Springtime In Maine Means Smelts Are Running
By IFW Fisheries Biologist Kevin Dunham A sure sign of spring in Maine is that smelts are running.
National Safe Boating Week – Saturday, May 20 to Friday, May, 26 - 2017
National Safe Boating Week is a great way to kick off what will be a fun and safe summer on the water. From May 20 - 26, 2017, the Maine Warden Service, Maine Marine Patrol and the U.S. Coast Guard ask boaters to pay EXTRA attention to their boating safety behaviors, and to especially ALWAYS wear their lifejackets.
Monitoring Black Racers, The Largest Snake In Maine
[caption id="attachment_2341" align="alignright" width="1024"] Black racers are Maine's largest snakes.
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