AUGUSTA, Maine, March 23 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on March 21: Citing the "substantial toll" the COVID-19 pandemic is taking on Maine's independent fishermen, acquaculturists, wholesale dealers, and seafood processors, Governor Janet Mills pressed President Donald Trump to marshal the resources of the federal government to support Maine's vital fishing and seafood industries. In a letter to the President, Governor Mills specifically requested that the Tru  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, March 24 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following story: * * * - Dam removals and fish passage construction have opened up new habitat in Maine's Sheepscot River for sea-run fish, including endangered Atlantic salmon. * * * In 2019, we celebrated two habitat restoration milestones on Maine's Sheepscot River, where fish passage barriers were removed at the two lowermost dams on the river. The Coopers Mills dam in Whitefield, Maine wa  more