Salmon Rules in Maine: Help or Hindrance

Sixty to 70 people attended a public hearing with federal regulators on a proposal to add the Penobscot, Kennebec and Androscoggin rivers to the list of eight Maine waterways with populations of endangered Atlantic salmon.

According to the Kennebec Journal, supporters argued that expanding the list of protected Gulf of Maine salmon will help focus federal money and public attention on the restoration effort without harming the fishermen and industries that use the rivers.

"I would like to have my kids fish these rivers that I love with large numbers of fish, not just the trickles of fish coming in now," Darrin Kelly, a registered guide who operates an ecotourism business in Gouldsboro, told the journal.

But critics warned that an endangered designation on three of Maine's most economically important rivers could undercut recent successes.

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