Ruin of Salmon Runs Took a Long Time; Recovery Will, Too

Kennebec Journal By Clinton B. Townsend August 7, 2011 All of Maine’s rivers were once the home of vast schools of Atlantic salmon returning from the ocean to reproduce. It has been estimated that in the Kennebec River alone as many as 70,000 Atlantic salmon returned annually. Sadly, those great runs were decimated by overfishing,…