NOAA: Penobscot River Salmon Run Surges for Second Straight Year
July 28, 2020
July 28, 2020
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, July 28 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following feature story:
In encouraging news, preliminary numbers of endangered Atlantic salmon returning to Maine's Penobscot River for 2020 are the highest since 2011. On July 22, Maine's Department of Marine Resources reported 1,415 salmon returns, up from 1,076 in 2019. These numbers are a vast improvement from 2014, when only 248 Atlantic salmon returned to the river to spawn. The . . .
In encouraging news, preliminary numbers of endangered Atlantic salmon returning to Maine's Penobscot River for 2020 are the highest since 2011. On July 22, Maine's Department of Marine Resources reported 1,415 salmon returns, up from 1,076 in 2019. These numbers are a vast improvement from 2014, when only 248 Atlantic salmon returned to the river to spawn. The . . .